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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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20 August 2007

Companies caught tinkering on Wikipedia

Wikipedia is welcoming the introduction of a new search tool to try and put a stop to the spate of companies which are thought to be tampering with entries about them on the online encyclopedia.

The website is suspicious that some leading brands have been altering their Wikipedia entries in a bid to make themselves look better or to compare more favourably against their rivals’ entries.

The new facility will help the website lift the lid on anonymous edits of its entries. Currently the open source encyclopedia holds only the net addresses of its editors. But now the new tool, developed by the California Institute of Technology, can compare these with a database of known IP addresses to reveal the origin of the edit.

Wikipedia Scanner can work out the location or organisation from which an entry has been changed, although it cannot identify the specific person who made the edit.

A spokesperson for Wikipedia said the company really values transparency and the scanner takes this to another level. Wikipedia Scanner may prevent an organisation or individuals from editing articles that they're really not supposed to.