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10 July 2008
Future on the line for regionals
Regional papers are turning to the net for their future revenue streams, as they haemorrhage advertisers from their print editions amid growing economic uncertainty.

7 July 2008
Mobile journalists to share desks
Mobile journalists, or mojos, face losing their desks as newspapers look to take advantage of mobile technologies, such as laptops and WiFi, to cut down on office real estate.

3 July 2008
Regional star does four million impressions
The web offering of Britain's biggest-selling regional evening newspaper, the Express & Star, has reached a new milestone by breaking through the four million barrier for monthly page impressions.

30 June 2008
Journalists should take blogging seriously
Too few journalists treat blogging seriously and are failing to grasp the truth that the blogging revolution is threatening the established order of journalism, according to Guardian media commentator, Roy Greenslade.

26 June 2008
BBC wants Ł800,000 local video kitty
The BBC has unveiled plans for an £800,000 fund to source local video content from outside the organisation, as part of a £68 million investment in its local network.

23 June 2008
Mail posts first-class online figures
Mail Online has leapfrogged Telegraph.co.uk to become the most popular online national newspaper, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation Electronic (ABCe) statistics.

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27 January 2008

Boom year for national newspaper websites

The national newspaper websites are celebrating extraordinary year-on-year increases in readership, despite ending the year on a low.

Figures released by ABC Electronic (ABCe) reveal that all five of the national dailies it audits have suffered the traditional year-end slump in website visitors because of the festive period.

The Telegraph was worst hit, with its readership tumbling by more than 17% for the month to 10.55 million unique users. Nevertheless, according to the newspaper’s own figures, the website has seen an 86% increase in traffic since the same period the previous year.

By contrast, dailymail.co.uk was least affected by the holiday slowdown, closing the year with a decrease of just 5.5% in its monthly readership to 13.6 million users. And it’s been a bumper year overall for the tabloid’s online counterpart with a 115% boost in traffic for the year.

The Sun Online, Guardian Unlimited and Times Online also saw their audiences slump in the last month of the year, but all three were buoyed by strong year-on-year performances.

Guardian Unlimited enjoyed a 21% increase in readership for the year, and still tops the list of UK national newspaper websites with nearly 16 million unique visitors.

Both Times Online and The Sun Online registered handsome twelve-month performances, with increases in unique users of 30% and 45% respectively.