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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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26 November 2007

Politician blogs prompt nanny state row

Political blogging is the hot topic among politicians amid claims that Welsh Assembly plans to investigate the practice could lead to a nanny state culture.

The assembly's standards committee wants to look at the implications of the growing use of blogs by its ministers as a means of expressing their views

But Lib Dem assembly minister (AM), Peter Black, has lashed out – urging the committee to treat AMs as adults capable of taking responsibility for their own decisions.

Mr Black said on his blog that people often complained about the creation of a nanny state and it seemed that the nanny state culture was alive and well within the National Assembly for Wales itself.

His views were echoed by Conservative AM and fellow blogger, Alun Cairns, who said he would be very cautious about the possibility of limiting an AM’s freedom of expression.

Blogs were the opportunity to express thoughts, he added, but maybe in a bit more of a personal nature.

Labour committee chair, Jeff Cuthbert, denied any suggestion of restricting freedom of expression.

He said that committee members would be merely asked to consider the issue of members publishing to blog sites and the potential for this to result in breaches of the code of conduct, and consider whether to issue a note to members regarding the use of blogs.