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Trying to go forward while always looking backwards
April 15, 2011Nothing beats a scapegoat – and for newspapers, the internet has long been the direction fingers have been pointed in when sales figures hurtle downwards. So it was with some surprise that a discussion around the future of the media at Leeds University yesterday saw newspaper decision makers admit that the internet wasn’t the big, [...]