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Trinity Mirror closes final pension schemes

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

NEWSPAPER publisher Trinity Mirror is joining the list of companies closing their final-salary pension schemes to existing members.

Trinity Mirror ends final salary pension scheme

Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The NUJ has condemned Trinity Mirror for announcing the closure of its final salary pension scheme....and for telling staff about it late on Friday afternoon. An email was sent out to Trinity Mirror staff at 4.29pm today: “Over the next few days you will receive by post at your home address details of proposals the Group is putting forward about our defined benefit pension arrangements. Whether...

Trinity Mirror update: Further 17 editorial jobs set to go

E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Following intense speculation that the Trinity Mirror is set to open up another round of redundancies, the division yesterday confirmed further cut backs, putting some 17 editorial jobs at risk, the Guardian has reported.Trinity Mirror Merseyside publishes two dailies -...

• Trinity Mirror Cutting 17 More Editorial Jobs In Merseyside - paidContent:UK

Mirror group shuts pension scheme

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Newspaper group Trinity Mirror has announced the closure of its final salary pension scheme to all members.

‘Your Champions’ Awards

Wrexham Fencing Club (Free subscription) | yesterday

Wrexham Fencing Club members David Charles-Hendy and Stephanie Collister were presented with their respective ‘Your Champions’ awards, which were sponsored by Scottish Power and The Trinity Mirror Newspaper Group at The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chester. They were selected by a panel of judges after being nominated from their respective Trinity Newspaper regions. The following extracts were taken...

Will The Last Person Left On Oldham Hall Street Please Switch Off The Lights?

Scribblings, Jottings & Musings (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

As I write, the rockets & fireworks soar & explode in the local night sky. There'll be a few more fireworks being ignited around Oldham Hall Street at the news that Trinity Mirror is seeking 17 editorial job losses at its Merseyside titles ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/05/trinity-mirror-axe-jobs-merseyside ). The Guardian piece reports that Trinity Mirror "would seek to make...

“I wouldn’t promise that we’re going to meet that date.”

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

At the Guardian’s Media blog, Roy Greenslade spots a potential problem for Rupert Murdoch’s plans for a Paywall Construction Company . From Roy Greenslade Note the exact exchange - and the irony of the questioner being a Daily Telegraph reporter, who simply asked for an update on Murdoch’s previous announcement that News Corporation’s news sites would start charging for content...

• Murdoch admits delays on paywall scheme - The Register

'No confidence' vote in Trinity on Merseyside

Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

NUJ members in Liverpool today unanimously passed a motion of no confidence in Trinity Mirror management on Merseyside and agreed to ballot for industrial action in the event of compulsory redundancies, after the company announced that seventeen more jobs are to go (see post below). According to the union, Trinity wants to axe seven multi-media journalists’ posts and four photographers, as well...

A Year After BBCs Local Video Defeat, Local Papers Haven't Kept Their Promise

paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Last November, you could hardly escape the din of newspaper proprietors complaining that the BBC’s £68 million plan to add video bulletins to its local websites would destroy their plans to move in to online video. The BBC Trust agreed with the argument from Trinity Mirror ( LSE: TNI ), the Newspaper Society and a host of others that Auntie shouldn’t be allowed “to distort...

New job cuts by Trinity Mirror on Merseyside

Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Journalists at Trinity Mirror titles on Merseyside are facing a possible further 17 redundancies, HoldtheFrontPage reports today . It follows a restructure plan announced last year which has already seen 43 out of 175 editorial posts cut at Trinity's main Liverpool centre. HTFP reports that Trinity's North West and Wales division has announced today that there will be a reduction of approximately 17...

Eurovision Long Player: Lordi (Finland)

The All New Ewan's Musings (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

Over on Boom Bang a Blog, the Eurovision Outpost on Trinity Mirror’s Merseyblogs, I’m continuing to look at the discography and music of Eurovision entrants before and after they’ve appeared on the world’s biggest television show. This week, it’s the most recognisable Eurovision act in many a year… Lordi monstered over the 2006 contest before they [...]

Steve Dyson: 'Why it's time for a new editor'

Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

Steve Dyson has posted on his editors' blog about why he has decided to quit the Trinity Mirror-owned Birmingham Mail which is to switch to overnight printing. Trinity is also taking the Birmingham Post weekly. Dyson writes: "The company owns the papers and has every right to plan their futures. It has done so after lengthy consultation with many parties, including me." He adds: "It...

Trinity may axe Republic titles

Media Week (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009

Trinity Mirror could pull its Scottish newspapers, the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, from the Republic of Ireland as part of a review of the titles' future in the country.

Strike off at Trinity papers in Wales

Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

The NUJ today withdrew its threat of strike action at Media Wales in Cardiff after the company confirmed that no union member will be made compulsorily redundant. In a ballot result announced last week there was a 96% vote in favour of a strike following an announcement that 13.2 editorial jobs would go at the Trinity Mirror subsidiary. The company publishes the Western Mail , the South Wales Echo...

Brum and Coventry journalists in action vote

Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009

NUJ journalists in Birmingham and Coventry have voted to ballot for industrial action over plans to cut 40 editorial jobs at Trinity Mirror’s Midlands operation. The Coventry NUJ chapel is balloting over plans to cut jobs on weekly titles and introduce a new system for filing copy – which it claims eliminates sub editors. The Birmingham chapel is balloting in a bid to prevent compulsory...