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- MediaGuardian,
- Friday April 20 2001
Emap's film industry website, Screendaily.com, has been resurrected three weeks after being killed off in a cull of the company's online businesses.
Screendaily.com, the online offshoot of film trade weekly Screen International, has gone live again this week after Screen staff lobbied Emap Digital's chief executive, Paul Keenan, to reverse his decision.
The service was one of around a dozen Emap Digital websites shut down in wide-ranging cutbacks in the internet division in late March.
In the intervening weeks a holding page replaced Screendaily.com's regular service.
The Screen International publisher, Anne-Marie Flynn, and her staff are understood to have successfully argued that the website was a vital part of the weekly title's strategy to compete more effectively with its daily US rivals, Variety and Hollywood Reporter.
Screendaily.com gives the British title a daily presence in the offices of Hollywood studio executives for the first time.
Staff from the film title are also said to have argued that closing down Screendaily.com, which is maintained by only one full-time journalist, would save a relatively small amount of money.
Screen insiders were particularly incensed that having launched the website off their own backs in early 2000, it was taken over by Emap Digital and closed down without any consultation.
Ms Flynn said she was not able to comment when contacted by MediaGuardian.co.uk.
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