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Times Online: The reading is all gloomy for newspaper proprietors

Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:13

"[O]n a local level, papers are losing classified advertising market share to non-newspaper websites. JPMorgan thus cautioned that UK newspaper stocks, which have fallen by 40 per cent since the start of the year, compared with US papers down by 48 per cent, could fall farther."

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Fleet Street 2.0

Grantham Journal uses Google Maps to track rogue heron

Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 16:02

Johnston Press’s Lincolnshire weekly the Grantham Journal is the latest newspaper to use Google Maps to tell a story online. But rather than tracking floods or criminals, this time it’s a quirky local story.
The ‘garden gobbler’ - a wild heron - is terrorising the people of Grantham as it works its way around the [...]

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 Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 16:30 Comments

Alan Powell, editor of The Star in Sheffield, and many of his staff "have worked a 24-hour shift as it became apparent that rising water levels in the River Don were building the city’s biggest story since Hillsborough."

(Read more: Sheffield Star)