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School's out for dolphins

Posted by Rob Irvine on October 23, 2006 3:09 PM | 

A healthy start for dailypost.co.uk which in its first week made a big contribution to the total number of hits received by our North Wales websites.
Several thousands of people have made a first visit to the site - I hope a few of you have made it here to the blog.
Videos have proved very popular. The footage of the police video of two law-breaking motorcyclists quickly clocked up over 1,000 hits. Richard Williams's excellent film about one of the North Wales lifeboat crews proved similarly popular.
Check out the site now for an incredible new video of a school of dolphins spotted at play off the North Wales coast (well, it is half-term).
The internet is going to be a big part of our future and comes at an important time for newspapers who, like TV stations, have been troubled of late by a decline (hopefully short term) in advertising.
Apparently it's far worse the other side of the pond with big papers like the New York Times and Boston Globe all being forced to cut costs because of a fall in revenue. The Tribune in Chicago have even had to put their private plane up for sale.
How will they manage, the poor lambs?


 

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Bruce Hughes wrote...

Enjoy reading your blog.
thought you might like to know former US General Electric boss "Neutron Jack" Welch is part of a local group (Boston MA)
of investors who would like to buy the Boston Globe from the New York Times Co for about $500 million dollars, or half of what the Times paid for it a few years ago. This is part of a trend in the US where in some major cities big papers are being sold to local owners. Of course to make it work financially, the new owners often have to make major staff cuts....
story should be on www.Boston.com

Posted by: Bruce Hughes  | October 25, 2006 7:51 PM

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Hello, I'm Rob Irvine, editor of the best -selling newspaper in North Wales - the Daily Post. I reckon mine is one of the best jobs in newspapers - editing a paper with an incredible history, with fantastically loyal readers. And I get to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth with wife Julie and our dog Max. I'll tell you in this blog about life at the Daily Post office in Llandudno Junction together with some s

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