The CAJ Innovate conference kicked off with a keynote by Jim Brady. He is the president of digital strategy at Allbritton Communications (owners of Politico.com) and the former executive editor of WashingtonPost.com. His theme was the potential of local news. He argued that in the early days of news online, many local newspaper sites were tempted by big waves of traffic from viral engines, picking up a national or international

Image via Wikipedia The proposal to take money from the BBC licence fee to partly ITV regional news services was one of the headlines of theUK government’s Digital Britain report. According to the proposal, a small part of the expected £200m digital switchover surplus would fund three ITV regional news pilots in Scotland, Wales and one English region from now until 2013. The pilots are a response to ITV’s decision