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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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8 October 2007

Google agency deal Bale-ful to newspapers

Media veteran, Peter Bale, has warned that Google’s recent deal to publish press agency content will be damaging to newspaper websites.

The MSN.co.uk executive producer and former editorial director of Times Online spoke out at an industry forum about the likely impact of the deal on readership of newspaper internet sites.

He told delegates at the Association of Online Publishers conference that news agencies would consider the Google deal as welcome news. But he called on publishers to be very aware of what it really meant to them.

Google News had only recently brokered the deal, which would allow it to host stories from the UK Press Association, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press and the Canadian Press on its Google News site.

Google had complemented the deal with the introduction of a detection feature designed to filter out pages with duplicate news copy from its listings. Bale suggested that these types of news sites, that rely more on agency copy, could now start seeing a drop in online visitor numbers.

Bale was also keen to emphasise the role of quality journalism in his vision for MSN UK. The website was much more than algorithm, he added, it was the place to come for inspired and serious journalism – and a place to be entertained and informed.