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Regional UK papers ask for government help

By Julie Starr | Published: March 11, 2009
The chief executives of the UK’s top regional newspaper groups have banded together to negotiate with the government as they seek urgent help to save further titles from closure.
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UK news group recruits 1,000 citizen journalists

By Julie Starr | Published: October 13, 2008
Trinity Mirror's Teesside Evening Gazette is recruiting 1,000 citizen journalists over the next 12 months to boost content on its network of hyperlocal news sites, according to journalism.co.uk: The postcode-based community websites, which were rolled out from January last year as 'cousins' to the paper's Gazette Live website, feature content written and posted directly by a combination of non-journalists and the Gazette's editorial team.
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Times Online to charge for archive access

By Julie Starr | Published: September 18, 2008
It's a question newspaper sites eventually face: do we or don't we charge for access to our archives? Assuming, of course, that they have a searchable archive. Times Online, the website of the Times newspaper in the UK, launched its archive in June on a free trial basis and has just announced it is putting much of it behind a paywall, according to the Guardian: An email to users described the first three months of the archive as the "free introductory period" and explained that although featured articles on the archive homepage would remain free, access will be charged at £4.95 for one day, £14.95 for one month and £74.95 for one year.
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More UK sites sell advertising overseas

By Julie Starr | Published: August 11, 2008
Johnston Press, which publishes the Scotsman and a host of regional newspapers in the UK, is selling overseas advertising on its websites. Visitors outside the UK and Ireland will see ads relevant to their countries. Johnston Press is using the same ad agency as the Telegraph, AdGent 007, according to journalism.co.uk.
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‘Why not make the Indy a magazine?’

By Julie Starr | Published: April 16, 2008
If you haven't caught up with the appointment of former Observer editor Roger Alton as editor of the UK's Independent, here's a nice piece from the Guardian's Peter Wilby. And then comes this blog post from Richard Addis with a few suggestions for Alton as to what he might do with the Indy once he gets his shoes under the desk: Launch a daily magazine instead...
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