Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Yet more doom and gloom for local news

Hold the Front page reports the comments of Guardian Media Group chief executive Carolyn McCall who said

the provision of local news was becoming "increasingly uneconomic."


In a speech to Cardiff Business Club McFall she continued

regional newspapers will need to be "re-engineered completely" with lower costs and fewer staff – and that some titles will "inevitably" need to merge and close


Although the national press she feels is stronger

Although the national press is under huge pressure in terms of advertising revenues and readers, and although I think there will be some casualties in the not-too-distant future, I believe that the UK's quality national press, as a multimedia industry, is in relatively good shape and a long way from being on its knees."

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