• Press Gazette, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:46 PM

The main focus of the UK’s biggest-selling regional newspaper in ten years’ time will still be on print, Express & Star executive editor Mark Drew has told the paper’s readers. The paper’s commitment to print is in contrast with rival regional publisher Johnston Press, which sees its future as “digital first” and this month converted five of its dailies into weeklies. Drew, who has more than 20 years of experience in journalism, also said there was “no reason to doubt” the Express & Star would ever follow Johnston’s lead and become a weekly paper.

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