“JT Web” – JT stands for ‘Televised Journal’ – is a five to seven minute long video news report, put online every weekday at 5pm. Content will be exclusively local and regional, and will initially revolve around a daily video report. By this summer, coverage should expand to include video reports gathered from the newspaper’s local journalist teams.

This mini-evening news report will be hosted by four journalists who were specifically trained for that.

Importantly, the Télégramme went through few investments or changes to put this into place: only one video journalist was specially hired for this purpose.

“We want to organize the convergence of new media around the production of the printed newspaper,” said Olivier Clech, chief editor of Multimedia for Le Télégramme.

There is another indication of the paper’s openness to innovation and success: its paid-for circulation has continuously grown over the last five years, up to 200,000 copies daily in 2006.

Source: Nouvel Observateur through Ifra Executive News Service