Independent.co.uk: Does it matter that UK regional papers are in crisis?
March 13th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Job losses, Jobs, Newspapers
A big question indeed from the Independent’s Ian Burrell. He takes a look at issues affecting the performance of UK regional press and presents the ‘for’ and ‘against’ views on whether the ‘crisis’ matters.
Have regionals ‘had their day’? “Not at all,” the article says, at one point. “An impressive 82 per cent of UK adults read local newspapers, a level of penetration matched by no other medium except television.”
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