"Thinking about tomorrow isn't enough any more."

"So how do media’s products become Media as a Service (MaaS)? This is not just about putting up a pay wall and charging a subscription fee. Rhapsody tried that in music and the Financial Times has done it in print, both with limited success. The “S” in MaaS is not an afterthought or tacked on, it is the entire ecosystem attached to the content. "

"The company kept defining itself as a newspaper company, not a news organization (or, better yet, a community builder). Everything it did was based on how it would impact the paper edition. The focus was not on competing with web properties and services, but on the other major newspaper in town, the Denver Post. "

"A large chunk of that charging is likely to take place in the mobile sphere ,with 56% saying they expect to develop "paid for" apps in the next 12 months. These will not just be aimed at iPhone users, but BlackBerry, Nokia and handsets running Google's new Android platform too. "

A New York-based anarchist has been arrested by the FBI and charged with hindering prosecution after he allegedly used the social networking site Twitter to help protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh evade the police.

The Standard editor, Geordie Greig, said the Standard board made its decision on its own but informed Associated, which remains a minority shareholder after selling 75.1% of the Standard to a consortium led by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev in February.

"The phrase 'We Know What They Want' is a kissing cousin to 'If It Bleeds, It Leads'; murders sell papers and a news editor is always going to put the big crime story at the top of the newslist, but… a violent death isn't always the best story of the day, and not all readers appreciate being served up a diet of crime. "

A third-party Wave extension called Ribbit lets users initiate conference calls inside of the program as well as the ability to call a designated phone number and have audio transcribed into the document.

So what will more cuts mean to the company's regional news coverage. More importantly, will we in Liverpool notice any more cuts from the Manchester-centric Granada news coverage?

"The survey shows the majority incorrectly assumed readers found their content very valuable; they also stated a belief that readers would struggle to find adequate replacements – the reader response was that they wouldn't find it difficult. "

"At the one extreme, local councils had denied access and even been accused of making late-night pressuring calls to remove material, while at the other end of the scale, some more enlightened council press officers treated the new news sources in the same way as the established local newspaper."

Hartley noted news pioneers are often community activists, too, and that many local news blogs are popping up run by such activists to fill the gap left when local papers get closed.