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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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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.

The pressures brought on by the digital revolution and dwindling advertising revenues have prompted newspapers to turn to the concept of office hoteling in a bid to slash the number of office desks and reduce costs.

Many mobile journalists are finding themselves sharing their desks and having to make a reservation for a slice of desk time.

President of North Jersey Media Group, Stephen Borg, is one such fan of office hoteling.

One of his company's newspapers, the Record in Hackensack, is set to close the doors of its HQ and relocate staff to the offices of one of the group's other titles, the Herald News of West Paterson.

Borg said that he really viewed this change as moving out into the field and that he saw mobile journalists as eventually working full-time away from the office.

The company reckons it can save about $2.4 million a year by cutting down on the costs of running an office, from electricity bills to cleaning staff.