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Forecasts for 2009 are, unsurprisingly, relatively pessimistic for traditional media and more positive for new media developments. But not all commentators were as determined as Jeff Nolan that "if 2008 was bad for newspapers, 2009 will be devastating," and many saw hope in the possibility of changes in content and format.  

The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun announced in December that they will begin sharing content including stories, photos and news.

The exchange is in order to cut costs and "benefit from each others expertise."  For example, The Washington Post will use the Sun's regional coverage and the Sun will "tap the Post's federal government coverage."

India's language dailies are "tapping into the mix of sentiment and technology," as the Internet serves a means of "keeping in touch with one's roots" and staying informed as more people spread around the globe.

Internet "penetration" is increasing in rural areas, adding to the base of nearly 50 million users in mostly urban settings, Exchange4Media is reporting.

Newspapers had been launching their online versions as "customary add-ons to their main dailies," Exchange reports, but more papers have started to launch newer verticals as well as sub-domains, enabling them to "have better control over classifieds" and use the online medium effectively and profitably.

In an interview with UK newspaper The Guardian, Telegraph Assistant Editor Brian MacArthur, British Journalism Review Editor Bill Hagerty, Society of Editors Executive Director Bob Satchwell and Nation Union of Journalists General Secretary Jeremy Dear.mused over the possibility of the government aiding the troubled newspaper industry.

The chief executive of media research firm Enders Analysis is calling on the UK government to relax the competition rules to allow media companies to diversify and survive, according to Press Gazette.

Claire Enders predicts "catastrophic" results if something is not done.  In five years, a third of the country's newspapers, two national newspapers and half the jobs of the regional media will be gone. 

Indian media firm Sharp Vision Media, based in Haryana, announced the launch of a regional evening newspaper Abhi-Abhi. The eveninger is printed in as a full-colour broadsheet on 12 pages, priced at INR1.5 (US$0.03), and is aimed towards a younger audience aged between 20 and 30 years. 

Ten weekly titles and one monthly community newspaper are facing closure threats from Newsquest, according to Hold the Front Page.

The company is also proposing a series of changes, including creating three regional production hubs, which will be responsible for all sub-editing work.

Newspaper planning, according to a memo by regional managing director Chris Hughes, will be centralized for all of the North West titles, but the news gathering operation will not be affected "in most cases."

The titles in the North West division are undergoing a period of "consultation with affected staff," according to Hughes, but it is not known how many will be made redundant.

The moves are being considered with the objective of "realigning the company's cost base, with the expectation that revenues will continue to decline in 2009," the memo states.

The restructuring is a matter of efficiency, according to the memo, and is expected that the company will "continue to produce first class newspapers, both in print and online."

Source:  Hold the Front Page

Despite the multitude of changes in the approach to news delivery, a facet of newsgathering remains the same, regional newspaper editors and executives said at an industry conference.

Shorthand is a "core skill" for journalists, and essential for fast-breaking online news, Manchester Evening News editor Paul Horrocks said at the NCTJ skills conference on Friday.

The Tampa Tribune has launched a three-pronged multimedia news approach working with the newspapers staff, TBO.com and WFLA-TV.

The Tampa Tribune's move follows a round of cost cutting measures at the US regional newspaper.

Iowa's Telegraph Herald of Dubuque has announced a new partnership with a local NBC television station to share news coverage and cross promotion, according to Editor & Publisher.

According to a statement released, "the newspaper and television station will cooperate in planning and reporting Dubuque and regional news and in presenting special reports on issues of importance to tri-state readers and viewers."

Members of the UK's regional press will debate the future of journalism training later this week, following a report by the Society of Editors Conference which found that trainees are not meeting the industry's needs in terms of news gathering and writing.

The first Journalism Skills Conference will be held in Greater Manchester on Friday, where delegates and industry leaders will discuss the lack of "core skills" in multimedia.  

The need for training to reflect the needs of "converged" newsrooms and "multi-platform" journalism will be the main focus of the conference, Hold the Front Page reports, and take "a strategic view of the issues associated with educating and training journalists.

Source:  Hold the Front Page

Following Saturday's crisis summit to discuss the plight of regional papers, the National Union of Journalists will be staging a coordinated "day of action" against pay freezes and rising job cuts.

The emergency summit meeting, following one of the worst weeks for job cuts in the industry, led union and newspaper representatives to agree to a series of moves in response to the job crisis.

The National Union of Journalists representatives from the UK's "big four" newspaper groups will be holding a crisis summit Saturday following a "spate of job cuts across the regional press" in an attempt to offset an economic fallout.

Trinity Mirror has announced that the Liverpool Daily Post will undergo a major restructuring.  According to the paper's website they are launching a "revolutionary new editorial operating model by streamlining its production process to create a centralized hub, providing up-to-the-minute online content for its websites and writing and producing all its Merseyside daily and weekly newspaper titles."

The Post will also stop publishing its Saturday edition, making it a Monday to Friday morning paper, although its website will remain a seven-day-a-week operation.

Scotland houses an abandoned aerodrome, home to seven million issues of newspapers.  

The warehouse stocks papers that can be seen on back-issue-newspaper.co.uk. The company  has been running for five years and has sold about 30,000 back editions of UK and Irish national and regional newspaper titles each year.

York's Press newspaper will be the first daily regional newspaper without its own editor, Press Gazette is reporting.

Weekly editor Kevin Booth and managing director Steve Hughes have been made redundant, according to Press Gazette, and are entering the process of applying for managing editor, "the one post that remains."

The Grey Cardigan blog anticipates "significant commercial responsibility beyond merely balancing the editorial budget, i.e. slashing costs and shedding jobs" for the post, and the transition will "destroy any notion of independence or impartiality" on the part of the editor and having significant repercussions on the paper itself.

Source:  Press Gazette