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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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4 October 2007

FT.com to open up content

FT.com is set to widen access to content previously only available to paying online subscribers in a bid attract a greater number of page views.

The Financial Times is to launch a new user access concept, which it is touting as the third way, which sets out to bolster its income from paid subscriptions with additional advertising revenue by opening its website more to non-paying users.

The financial daily is to allow users free access to up to 30 articles a month, although users will have to register after viewing the first five. Meanwhile, paying subscribers with heavier usage will continue to benefit from unlimited access and a raft of additional features.

Publisher and FT.com managing editor, Ien Cheng, said that other publishers had been caught in a stark choice between free versus paid, and hailed the hybrid subscription model as a third way.

FT chief exec, John Ridding, said that the new model was innovative and flexible and would broaden the website’s reach. FT.com believed that many of its users would be drawn by these changes and the quality of its journalism and join the ranks of its existing subscribers.

The move will free up blogs and news aggregators to link to FT.com articles, but enable the business newspaper to maintain its income from subscriptions.