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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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7 January 2008

Newspaper closure heralds further print extinctions

The writing is on the wall for the print media, as a US newspaper has closed its print output and reincarnated itself as an online-only publication.

Post newspapers, based in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, published its final print edition after 126 years, replacing it with the news website kypost.com.

Recently, many industry experts have been signalling the death of the traditional media, amid the increasing dominance of news delivered in cyberspace.

And the closure comes as concrete evidence to them that the print media will gradually become an endangered species.

The Scripps group, which owns the newspaper, announced that the new site was a standalone, ad-supported online publication focusing on local news and traffic, sport, weather and obituaries.

Commenting on the launch of kypost.com, its managing editor, Kerry Duke, said the site was still very much a work in progress and that its readers would help the online publication to determine what was most relevant to them.

The new site, he added, would be leveraging the power of the internet to build online communities of people with like interests and concerns, while at the same time honouring the tradition of the Kentucky Post.