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Designated a renewal area by the Welsh Assembly Government, West Adamsdown in Cardiff is currently undergoing an extensive

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Speed, speed and yet more speed was the resounding theme of Richard Burton's lecture.

The name of the game is to break that story...
First...
Before anybody else...
Regardless of how accurate your reporting is...

And you must have a ticker along the top of the page which is updated every few seconds (it's interesting to note that the Telegraph ticker seems to have disappeared).

Now this is all very well and good, and I understand this concept during… Continue

The BBC news website has long been a firm favourite, and was a valued source of information during my undergrad days, mainly because in the vast depths of the World Wide Web, where anyone can post anything, I trusted them to provide me with accurate and in-depth reporting. That the BBC is, like most other news
sites, planning to increase their multi-media output, with more video and
audio, and greater user interaction isn't exactly a great surprise. After

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The online world is one giant market place where hundreds and thousands of news sites fight it out for those all important hits. Content is key, because the better it is, the more attention you'll get and the better you'll rank on the search engine scale. This was the message conveyed by Antony Mayfield, Head of Content and Media at Spannerworks.

As journalists who will soon be entering this cattle market

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If you want to get ahead online you have to make it simple, easy and attention grabbing, so says Kim Hollamby, Digital Development Director at IPC. This is because the needs of the online audience are very different to those of print readers, as the average online user is less loyal, easily bored and task driven (otherwise known as lazy). Most people use Google to find the site they want even if they know the URL -

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