France: regional paper launches online televised news report

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on April 18, 2007 at 3:49 PM
The French regional Le Télégramme launched a daily, miniature, televised news report on its website on April 17. The report consists of local and regional news compiled by the newsroom staff, and is an unprecedented venture in the daily regional press.

 
“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

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Stephen said:

The Times is actually 60 pence, 10 pence cheaper than the Guardian. I can't believe the Guardian has just gone up 10 pence, that's a 16 percent increase. I for one won't be buying it again.

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