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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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19 May 2008

Guardian online cannot survive alone

The UK's most popular news site, guardian.co.uk, needs to increase its number of visitors by many millions if it is to survive without the print version, the newspaper has warned.

Guardian head of editorial development, Neil McIntosh, spoke of the challenges ahead if the newspaper wanted to shift away from print and develop an online business model that could survive on its own.

He said that guardian.co.uk needed to have many millions more users to sustain the scale of operation and the way it worked now.

The Guardian, he added, couldn't switch the paper off and expect the website to sustain all that.

Both traditional and digital formats of the paper are expected to run side-by-side for some time to come. However, McIntosh spilled the beans on the paper's long-term aspirations to do away with print altogether.

When the paper had changed shape in 2005, McIntosh explained, it had bought some new presses- and editor, Alan Rusbridger, said that those were the last set of presses the paper would ever be buying.

That, he said, sounded to him like a reasonable call.