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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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28 August 2007

Sky search for citizen journalists

Sky News is turning to the public at large in a drive to provide extensive grassroots media coverage of the next general election.

The satellite news channel is forging a partnership with City University in a bid to find a postgraduate student to work closely with Sky News to develop the project.

The selected candidate will be tasked with building up a team of what could be several hundred citizen journalists, monitoring and mentoring them as they write and post content to the election news weblog.

Senior lecturer in electronic publishing at the London university, Neil Thurman, said that Sky wants to experiment with the format.

The university asked the channel to fund the PhD studentship, explained Thurman, as Sky was looking to make use of academic input and the university’s research in content generation.

He described the format as a series of blogs about the election with contributions from members of the public instead of Sky News journalists.

City University is looking for someone with a good knowledge of British politics, most likely a recent graduate in the area of journalism, who can bring something from their experience with Sky into their research.

The move comes just as competitors ITV launched their own citizen journalism website ITV Uploaded.