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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
If readers won’t pay for content, will they for community? That’s what Patrick suggested last week. And Pluck’s European chief Pluck ‘s European chief Stephanie Himoff tells paidContent:UK: “I see it as an opportunity.” Pluck already powers story commenting for publishers like Times Online, Trinity Mirror ( LSE: TNI ) and Guardian.co.uk; so how about charging for...
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milne media (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
ANYONE who downloaded QND:03 the other week will have heard me banging on about the battle for newspaper sales in Scotland, particularly as it affects the big two: Trinity Mirror and News International. It was centred on a statistic. Actually,...
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Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Twitter awards list unites Compare the Meerkat, Manchester City FC and Alan Rusbridger The first annual Twitter awards – the Golden Twits – took place last night at London nightclub Fabric. Winners had to keep their acceptance speeches to 140 characters or less, naturally. Winners included Nesta (category: business-to-business), Comparethemarket.com's Compare the Meerkat marketing campaign...
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Public Relations Consultant (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
In tough times, newspapers should set up PR agencies suggests Neil Benson, Trinity Mirror Regional’s editorial director, which suggests Neil Benson’s view of public relations is rather old fashioned. Many public relations people are ex-journalists and there was a time when PR agencies would only recruit ex-hacks. Not only are those days long gone, it has [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Guardian.co.uk remains most popular UK newspaper website, followed by Mail Online and Telegraph.co.uk Guardian.co.uk remained the most popular UK newspaper website last month with more than 31 million uniques, despite shedding more than 1 million unique users after September's record traffic. Mail Online and Telegraph.co.uk also stayed above 30 million unique users for the second month running, according...
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Banksy's Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Something you remember writing like it was yesterday appears in the publication's 'Looking Back' column. Richard Williams, ex-assistant editor of the Daily Post and now Wales director of RNID e-mailed to say he'd been back up north and picked up a copy of The Leader, as it is now having dropped Evening from its title, and there in the Looking Back page was a piece I'd written 20, Dear God, 20 years...
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Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
NUJ members at Trinity Mirror’s BPM Media, which publishes the Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail , have voted to strike in the next three weeks unless the company’s threat of compulsory redundancies is lifted. A ballot of union members at the Birmingham centre concluded on Monday with a 75 per cent majority in favour of strike action, the NUJ said today . The NUJ chapel at BPM Media,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Heartening to see the Press Complaints Commission delivering another adjudication today by censuring the Daily Record for intruding into privacy and harassment. The complaint concerned the way the paper had pursued a woman who managed a lap-dancing club to talk about her pregnancy, the result of a liaison with a footballer. Having confirmed the fact, she made it clear that she did not wish to speak...
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Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The Newspaper Society has launched Locally Connected, a new way of measuring integrated print and online audiences, and is claiming that it reveals that local media websites increase the unduplicated reach of regional and local newspapers within their circulation areas by 14%, particularly among upmarket and core middle age groups. Seven of the largest local media groups, representing 70% of the industry,...
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Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Sir Ray Tindle has revealed that the South London Press has lost more than £500,000 since it was acquired by Tindle Newspapers in August 2007 from Trinity Mirror. Sir Ray's admission came during Friday's edition of ITV's London Tonight , which dealt with the subject of council-run newspapers, Roy Greenslade reports on his blog . Many ads that used to appear in SLP are now being carried instead...
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Reputation, Reputation, Reputation (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Following Trinity Mirror's deal with Northumberland Council to provide hyperlocal websites, Neil Benson of Trinity Mirror has argued that newspapers should team up with councils to provide 'arms length' PR services: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/16/trinity-mirror-regional-papers I admire the sentiments, as without new revenue streams then the regional print media will continue to die,...
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Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear in his speech to ADM today slams deregulation and corporate greed: "Trinity Mirror were not the only pigs caught with their snouts in the media trough, their heads in the sand and their arses exposed."
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Trinity Mirror teamed up with the Press Association and Ten Alps, the television producer, yesterday to bid for the chance to make an ITV regional news bulletin for the North East.
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Media Week (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
LONDON - Publisher Trinity Mirror, news agency the Press Association and TV production company Ten Alps have formed a consortium to bid for the regional TV news pilot scheme planned for England.
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Repman (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
That worrying scenario could play out at a newspaper near you if the suggestion of Neil Benson, editorial director at Trinity Mirror in the UK, comes true. The idea that struggling newspapers should set up PR agencies as an additional source of revenue has set tongues wagging in PR circles, but the notion should be of concern far beyond our little fiefdom.
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