Hello Roy Greenslade , shared story possible on Student Accommodation

Reading today about state of local newspapers in Guardian. Roy Greenslade doubts that support from BBC and tech giants will solve the problem of declining sales. Similar situation for national newspapers, see ABC.

However no mention of citizen journalism or how the public / readers may contribute. The only model is for full time journalists. Debate around this has been going on a while. I guess there will have to be a more obvious crisis till change is considered.

As well as this blog I contribute to radio shows on Phonic FM, local community signal in Exeter ( 106.8 ) We talk about student accommodation, now taking over the city centre.

Blogging unlikely to get a BBC sub, but we could share some info. Our guess is that it could be a bubble. There may be a national trend based on switching some funds from London flats. Could the Guardian know more about this?

Also what will happen with online learning? Will so many students be on or near campus at any one time? Some form of blended learning probable. So far as I know there are no numbers published by University of Exeter for estimate in 5 or 10 years ahead. The Guardian education pages often dismiss the MOOC and related tech. But other views exist. Guess the investment in student accommodation is based on 20 years or so?

So clearly this blog post has a lot of guess in it. But could be based on a recent walk in Exeter at any time. Could be a swap with another locality. Would Roy Greenslade on a Monday talk to someone on a Tuesday and recycle some clues?