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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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1 May 2008

Online news error prompts BBC review

The BBC Trust has called for a review of the way the BBC News website sources and checks its facts, warning the broadcaster that it was too slow to correct mistakes found in an online story.

The BBC News web team received a complaint about inaccuracy of content in an article, published in June last year, about a Vatican ruling on US congressman J P Kennedy's marriage.

The BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee described the article as fundamentally flawed and said that the BBC web team should have been quicker to respond after it took more than a month to resolve the complaint.

In its defence, the BBC team pointed out that it kept to the BBC guidelines by responding to each stage of the complainant's correspondence within the ten-day time limit.

The BBC web team explained to the complainant that it had constraints on its time and resources to devote to each story and that its staffing simply didn't allow it to go into the detail that was outlined in the complaint.

The editorial standards committee issued an apology for mistakes in the original story, which had been sourced from Time magazine, and also accepted that the complaint could have been handled more quickly and effectively.