E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Newspapers around the world are facing a challenging time, not only because of the current difficult economic climate and declining advertising revenues, but also because of the ever more rapid push to multi-platform publishing and the changes to the operation...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
According to Sly Bailey, Trinity Mirror's CEO, publishers need to put digital media 'at the centre' of their businesses to survive the current economic downturn.Digital media must be integrated into the business model Bailey told delegates at the Association of...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
It's not as if no-one anticipated what might occupy Sly Bailey's keynote to the Association of Online Publishers conference in London this morning - the Trinity Mirror ( LSE: TNI ) CEO has been a vocal opponent of BBC Local's online video plans and has tried valiantly to find the positives when all the indicators in Trinity's recent ad sales performance point the other way. No surprise, then, that...
Banksy's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
In among the news of Trinity Mirror's closure of several weekly titles in North Wales, including the Rhyl Visitor, which was sad enough, was the announcement that it was also to transfer printing from its Liverpool printworks to Oldham. I'm sure someone in the management will manage to justify it, but I'll just say this, unless they are buying a fleet of much quicker vans, you can't get papers from...
Leanne Wood AM/AC (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The news of Ofcom's report is disastrous for the Welsh media industry. Scaling back regional programming will undoubtedly result in more job losses and lower quality television as well as less coverage of Welsh affairs. It comes after job losses at the BBC, Trinity Mirror and just a week after news that Big Issue Cymru is to close its operation in Cardiff to move to Scotland. Under Ofcom's proposals...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
A local UK newspaper is going to increase its team of citizen journalists for its hyperlocal site to 1,000 over the next 12 months. Trinity Mirror's Teesside Evening Gazette's postcode-based community websites contains content written and posted directly by non-journalists and...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Bad broker comment bore on Trinity Mirror, the newspaper publisher, which closed down almost 10 per cent, or 11.25p, at 102.25p last night.
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
-- Reuters : Broadcast vet Chris Cramer takes on the role of global editor of multimedia. Reporting to editor-in-chief David Schlesinger, Cramer will drive multimedia projects and serve as the main interface between the news org and media business. His new role combines editorial management of Reuters.com with the oversight of multimedia activities. With over 40 years of news experience, Cramer previously...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
-- Trinity Mirror : Mark Hollinshead has been appointed the new managing director of Trinity Mirror's ( LSE: TNI ) nationals division, combining his duties of currently overseeing Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail with the responsibility for all of the company's print and online products. Richard Webb, currently MD-UK Nationals, is leaving the company as a result. This marks the first time all...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) is adding several European publishers to Nokia Media Network , its mobile advertising network that was launched in February. It's added Agence France Presse, RTL Mobile, Spain's Cuatro, Prisa and Unidad Editorial, CNET ( NSDQ: CNET ) UK, Telegraph Media Group, Trinity Mirror ( LSE: TNI ) and Paris-based International Herald Tribune. Nokia claims over 100 million eyeballs and 10...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Savings The Treasury Committee has called for all savers to be offered the same guarantees to have their first £35,000 of savings returned within a week regardless of whether the savings institution is based in Britain or Europe. US industrial output reported its biggest slide in three years. Production fell by 1.1 per cent in August after a 0.2 per cent rise in July, raising fears about economic growth....
Leanne Wood AM/AC (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
I'm at the Plaid Cymru Conference in Aberystwyth, and yesterday I spoke at a fringe meeting held by the National Union of Journalists. It was clear from the meeting that the future of the media industry in Wales is far from rosy. There are journalist job losses at Trinity Mirror- who have a near monopoly on Wales' print media- at the BBC and at ITV. If ITV collapses, the BBC will have a monopoly on...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Job losses are expected at newspaper offices across north west England after Trinity Mirror announced plans to restructure.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Trinity Mirror is to close seven local papers and nine satellite offices in North Wales and the North West, putting 30 jobs at risk.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Around 100 jobs will go at Liverpool's two daily newspapers as Trinity Mirror ends over 150 years' printing history in the city.
