Why has there been a resurgence in the local and regional newspaper industry?
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Catherine Gee L6HH 30-1-00 Why has there been a resurgence in the local and regional newspaper industry? Local and regional newspapers used to be something that was complacent and that everybody bought but when sales started to decline the industry realised that they needed a change. Up until the 1980s the local and regional newspaper industry was successful, but from then sales began to drop and some titles folded. This was due to many reasons including competition from other media. In 1995 a resurgence starts as newspapers realised that there was a problem and began to tackle it with scheme's such as the Reader Project. A local newspaper provides for a local area, usually just a town, city or village such as the Lancaster Guardian and the Bolton Evening News. A regional newspaper provides for a larger area, usually a county like the Lancashire Evening Post and the Yorkshire Evening Post. There are...


