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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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6 May 2008

Digital will shrink news media

The news media will shrink and haemorrhage journalism jobs as the industry succumbs to pressures from new developments in the digital arena, a leading industry figure has warned.

Editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, said that news providers needed to adapt and provide something different if they were to survive the onset of blogs, citizen journalism and new advertising platforms.

He said that the way forward for media organisations was to figure out where the amateur internet market had failed.

And there, he continued, lay the commercial opportunity to do something that still had value and which people would pay for.

Anderson said there was absolutely no point in repeating commodity news from the newswires, so the industry needed to do something that the internet had either not already done or not done too well.

This could be original reporting, investigative reporting, perhaps long form narrative or maybe it was the packaging of stories with photography and diagrams, he added.

He said there was no law or God-given grant for the media industry to be any particular size and that the loss of journalism jobs was the inevitable consequence of digital economics.