UK: Local Northcliffe titles working together to create business news website
Posted by Kelley Vendeland on April 30, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Northcliffe-owned daily newspapers in the East Midlands are pooling together resources to publish a new regional business website, thisisbusiness-eastmidlands.co.uk.Participating papers The Evening Telegraph in Derby, Leicester Mercury, Lincolnshire Echo, Nottingham Evening Post and The Sentinel in Stoke will all provide business stories to the site in an effort to give readers a complete picture of the business events across the region.
The main focus is local, allowing users to search stories by region and providing access to a special commercial property section. The site, however, plans to balance out frequent updates on East Midland business news with a dose of national and international news, which is in line with the recent caution by a Washington Post business columnist that too much local news can be unsophisticated.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2Fnewspaper%2F2008%2F04%2Fuk_local_northcliffe_titles_working_toge.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="425" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/eastmidlands.html" onclick="window.open('http://www.editorsweblog.org/eastmidlands.html','popup','width=995,height=548,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/eastmidlands-thumb-300x165.jpg" alt="eastmidlands.JPG" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="165" width="300" /></a></form><b>Northcliffe</b>-owned daily newspapers in the East Midlands are pooling together resources to publish a new regional business website, <a href="http://thisisbusiness-eastmidlands.co.uk/"><b>thisisbusiness-eastmidlands.co.uk</b></a>.<br /><br />Participating papers <i>The Evening Telegraph</i> in Derby, <i>Leicester Mercury</i>, <i>Lincolnshire Echo</i>, <i>Nottingham Evening Post</i> and <i>The Sentinel</i> in Stoke will all provide business stories to the site in an effort to give readers a complete picture of the business events across the region.<br /> <br />The main focus is local, allowing users to search stories by region and providing access to a special commercial property section. The site, however, plans to balance out frequent updates on East Midland
business news with a dose of national and international news, which is in line with the recent caution by <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2008/04/us_too_much_local_news_is_not_sophistica.php">a <i>Washington Post</i> business columnist that too much local news can be unsophisticated</a>. <br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/080430biznez.shtml">HoldtheFrontPage</a><br /> &title=UK: Local <b>Northcliffe</b> titles working together to create business news website){kind=link}
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