Sarah Radford - The Online Newsroom

It was good to hear from an old Cardiff student today. Sarah graduated in 2004, and is now working as an online journalist for the Newbury Weekly News. Though complimenting the newspaper, the online edition is seperate and distinct from it.

Though still very much in its infancy ( the online edition employs 3 journalists, compared to 21 for the print edition ), multi-media is very much the future.

Online journalism allows the reporting of news on a daily basis, something which is not possible with a weekly newspaper. It also allows for the updating of a rolling-news story.

Far from damaging newspaper circulation (as many "old school" editors fear), online editions actually support and compliment the work of their print compatriots.

It seems that those who embrace this change will be the ones who survive and prosper, whereas those who do not will go the way of the dinosours.