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So where does that leave us? All the honest pundits will give you the same answer: No &$#@ing idea. We may well end up with a society that simply doesn't have the quantity and quality of journalism we've enjoyed. Other countries don't; though those that run well also have functioning regulatory systems and raucous, diverse, parliamentary oppositions—not our two-party compromise machine.
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Website traffic has plummeted by 40 percent in the three weeks since the Gazette started charging for most of its online content, including obituaries, managing editor Judy Patrick tells us. But she says “online subscriptions are slowly building.” There are 670 online-only subscribers.
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Blogging isn’t just about making money online, for some people it could be because they want to be a best selling author but can’t get a foot in the door right now and for others it started just so they could pay there (sic) grocery bills.
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Creating a four strong 'resource' (team) to keep a Twitter stream refreshed. Interesting insight from the commercial world.
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The Darlington-based paper currently serves ten communities with dedicated Local Correspondent websites but is planning to launch a raft of new sites across the North East. Each of these new sites will be staffed by members of the communities they serve with recruits given training in photography, story structure and use of the each websites content management system. The local correspondents, who are expected to file around three pieces each week, are then mentored by a Northern Echo reporter.
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