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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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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.

He said journalists did not regard blogging as having any real public service value and that many, especially print veterans like himself, were very suspicious of bloggers.

Many editors and journalists, he added, were still clinging to the old model of news- that of one-way traffic, of us and them, where journalists lectured and did not converse with their readers.

Greenslade said that blogging turned that model on its head. It allowed people to question the information journalists provided, allowed them to produce their own information and offered them a space to air their own views.

But journalists, he explained, still wanted to see themselves as a class apart.

He said that they saw themselves as secular priests, who decided what information to give the great unwashed and even told them how they should react to that information, what to think and what to do.

But he warned that the congregation was no longer in awe of the priests, whose supremacy was crumbling.

According to Greenslade, journalists had to open themselves up to a new thought process- that there was no us and them.