Assignment idea

When Peter Preston recently visited JOMEC he said the future of the local and regional press would not be damaged by the internet, but defined by it. People such as Peter Clifton and Richard Burton have also come and told us that the web journalists of the future will need core news-gathering and storytelling skills in their armoury, the very skills we are being taught at the moment.

By using NewburyToday as a focus, and talking to people such as Simon Reynolds of the Lancashire Evening Post (who are launching Johnson Press websites with the aid of UCLAN) and Keith Perch of Northcliffe Electronic Publishing, I will look at how local and regional titles will be defined by the net.