Plans to scrap traffic advertisements will cost press £20m

Stack of newspapers‘Govt traffic notice plan could cost local press £20m’
The newspaper industry could lose up to £20m a year if the Government go through with plans to reverse the law that councils must advertise traffic orders in local press. The Department for Transport have called this law a “cost burden” and feels they could make “substantial savings” by advertising online instead. It has also estimated that 80% of councils will stop advertising in local newspapers if the law is scrapped.

‘Don’t Expect an Apple Televsion Anytime Soon’
Despite the widely rumoured plans for Apple television, the product may not launch until early 2013

‘YouTube could introduce a subscription service of its own’
YouTube is considering launching its own subscription service

‘Up to 75 more journalists to go at Mirror titles and People’
Trinity Mirror has said that it plans to cut up to another 75 editorial jobs at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People

‘A new iPad app that promises a future for long-form journalism’
A new iPad app provided by Longfrom.com suggests “a growing appetite for longform journalism on digital platforms”

‘BBC criticized over ‘pro-Putin’ documentary’
Russian dissidents have condemned the BBC2 series ‘Putin, Russia and the West’ for being “pro-Putin”

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