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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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24 January 2008

Newspaper blogs more like pub chatter

Blogs are no substitute for serious newspaper columns as they are much like bar room chats – according to a former editor of The Times.

Speaking about the role of blogs on newspaper websites, media veteran Simon Jenkins has fuelled the debate about the future direction of new media output.

He said that newspaper columns were akin to writing a collected essay, whereas blogging was like laying down your pen, going to the pub and telling the guy next to you what you really thought.

Jenkins, who contributes blogs to the online news website, the Huffington Post, said it was the difference between writing and a bar room chat.

That was why, he added, he couldn’t take those terribly seriously who answered you back. They were the sort of people you would get answering back in a bar chat.

Jenkins nevertheless enthused about the flexibility of the new medium, but was quick to point out that blogs should not take the place of traditional newspaper columns.

And former Sunday Times editor, Andrew Neil, has waded into the debate, claiming that newspapers used bloggers to maintain a freshness of opinion.

He said that the rise of blogging and opinion outside of the mainstream had caused newspapers a problem, because quite often these blogs were more interesting than the editorials in the newspapers.