Sounds like the UK's Daily Telegraph is about to make a move that will shift it's centre of gravity significantly towards online publishing.
According to today's Observer, the Telegraph and ITN are close to announcing a deal to work together on new products, including content for a revamped Telegraph website. The deal would bring together the Telegraphs stable of journalists and ITN's TV and radio news expertise and infrastructure.
If the Observer has got it right, it sounds like the Telegraph's journalists can expect to see some big changes in their roles. The paper says:
"Executives at the Telegraph believe its roster of well-known
journalists, including Simon Heffer and Boris Johnson, are an underused
asset.
They want all reporters to write for the website as well as the papers and appear regularly on television or radio bulletins posted on the group's internet site."
This has echoes of the "all hands to the web" memo sent round the editorial team at the Miami Herald earlier this year.
