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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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15 October 2007

Newspaper websites booming

The leading national UK newspapers are on a roll, as new figures reveal their sites are enjoying three times the rate of growth compared with the UK internet overall.

New statistics published by Nielsen//NetRatings show that the number of Brits using one or more of the leading national newspaper websites jumped by 30% since the end of last year, with the figure now standing at 7.4 million.

Nielsen//NetRatings European internet analyst, Alex Burmaster, described the growth in the sector as particularly impressive considering the online audience itself had grown by just more than nine per cent in the same period.

This meant, he added, that the leading nationals online were growing at three times the rate of overall UK internet growth.

The Daily Mail has been the biggest success story, seeing its audience double over the period, from under 0.7 million to a current figure of 1.4 million users.

The Telegraph can also celebrate doubling its readership, with an audience figure now standing at 2.1 million.

The study, based on tracking data of more than 40,000 UK online users, revealed that readers spent the most time in total on the Sun website at 53 million minutes, followed closely by the Daily Mail at 49 million minutes. The same papers also enjoyed the highest average visit times.