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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
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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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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.

Advertising, traditionally one of the early casualties of an economic slump, is in decline and having a serious knock-on effect on regional newspaper groups, who are forecasting lower profits and suffering tumbling share prices.

But regionals are having to deal with more than just the gloomy economic outlook. Consumers are increasingly getting their news online and so advertising is following them by migrating to the net.

Lord Fowler, who chairs the House of Lords Communications Committee, has warned regional newspapers of precarious times ahead.
He said that advertising was going to the internet and that the problem was that online revenues could not match those generated by newspapers.

Johnston Press chairman, Roger Parry, said that the cause of the problem was pretty clear.

But he said that a forward-looking newspaper owner recognised that when this cycle had finished things were going to be different.

When advertising did come back, he added, it would come back online.

Editorial director of Trinity Mirror's regional division, Neil Benson, said that the group now had more websites than newspapers.

He said that the web was now the biggest news medium and that newspapers were more about campaigning and opinion forming.