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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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3 April 2008

Jury out on Google news tool

Google's new feature that allows users to search a particular news site directly from the search engine's results page is getting a mixed reaction from the media industry.

Users searching for any of the major newspapers are presented with an in-page search box on Google's results page, which appears directly below the news site's entry.

It gives users the convenience of searching for stories without having to go directly to the newspaper website.

Google's introduction of the tool sparked fears that it could have a negative impact on advertising revenues by reducing page impressions.

However, several media heavyweights have welcomed the tool, which is as yet only available on Google's English-language sites.

Telegraph Media Group digital editor, Ed Roussel, said that if the search did such a great job as to make its internal search too redundant, then that was fine.

At the end of the day, he added, the paper wanted people to read its content, but it didn't mind how they found it.

Blogs editor at guardian.co.uk, Kevin Anderson, said that some news providers actually wanted to see readers using Google because their own site search functions were wanting.