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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.

19 June 2008
This is…geocoded news
Northcliffe Media is stepping up its overhaul of its regional news sites by relaunching ten next generation ThisIs websites with new geotagging software.

16 June 2008
Bumper growth in online readership
Newspaper companies are seeing their online operations grow at double-digit rates, both in readership and advertising revenue, according to new research by a global organisation for the newspaper industry.

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16 June 2008

Bumper growth in online readership

Newspaper companies are seeing their online operations grow at double-digit rates, both in readership and advertising revenue, according to new research by a global organisation for the newspaper industry.

The World Association of Newspapers, which represents the interests of 18,000 newspapers worldwide, has just published its World Digital Media Trends report looking into the latest trends in digital media advertising and circulation.

And it predicts a bright future for news sites, with revenues from digital and mobile advertising expected to exceed $150 billion by 2011, representing a staggering twelve-fold growth in nine years.

Technological advances will have a huge impact on newspapers' digital strategies, with broadband reaching nearly 540 million households by 2011, more than a ten-times increase on the 2002 figure of 51.4 million.

The wireless customer base is also set to expand rapidly, with a projected three-fold increase from 1.1 billion subscriptions in 2002 to 3.4 billion by 2011.

The report also revealed that number who access news from their mobiles has grown dramatically, from 945 million users in 2001 to 2.6 billion by 2006.

Paris-based World Association of Newspapers, which was founded in 1948, is a non-profit, non-government organisation set up to defend and promote the press freedom and the economic independence of newspapers across the world.