The Future Looks Bright for Journalists

This is one of the most exciting times to become a journalist, said the editor of the Guardian online yesterday.

Neil McIntosh, speaking at Westminster University yesterday, explained how the Guardian online brings in as many as 25 million viewers a week on their website, with other newspapers websites around them increasing in readership as well.

However McIntosh did not seem so optimistic on the survival of regional newspapers such as the ‘Scotsman’, due to the constraints the current economic crisis has created, and the increasing popularity of online national papers.

“The Regionals are being hardest hit at the moment,” said McIntosh

“The website of the Scotsman, isn’t being invested in and is becoming much narrower, and in the last five years has lost half of their traffic.”

However McIntosh did reiterate that,

“Despite everything that’s going on in the world, this is possibly one of the most exciting times to become a journalist.”

And on the turn of the new year, the Guardian is moving from its headquarters on Farringdon road, to new offices in Kings Cross, signalling their intentions to be around for a while yet. It appears that the national papers such as the Guardian, the Times etc are not feeling the strain of the potential recession expected to hit the UK. It appears the future looks bright for national papers, but not so bright for regionals in the current economic climate.