Robert Andrews
Feb 8, 2012 1:28 AM
As it lays off another 75 staff and faces questions over CEO Sly Bailey’s salary, Trinity Mirror’s Mirror Group Newspapers is relaunching its Mirror.co.uk website on Wednesday with a stripped-back new look that accentuates the newspaper’s brand and core content.
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Roy Greenslade
MediaGuardian
Feb 1, 2012 12:27 PM
So it’s redundancy time once again. First, at the two Telegraph titles and now at the Mirror trio.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 4, 2012 12:16 PM
UK news publisher Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is continuing to build up its digital marketing business by acquiring Sunderland-based email marketing group Communicator Corp for £8 ($12.47) million.
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Robert Andrews
Dec 5, 2011 4:02 AM
Last week, I gave online evidence to a Welsh Assembly committee’s inquiry in to the future of media.
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Roy Greenslade
MediaGuardian
Nov 25, 2011 9:50 AM
Here are some words of wisdom from John Meehan, former editor of the Hull Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT), in an InPublishing article, Sustaining community journalism in the regions.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 14, 2011 11:36 AM
Former Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) digital marketing director Paul Hood, who was made redundant in the publisher’s recent reorganisation, will be digital director for the London publications of local news publisher Archant.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 10, 2011 4:20 AM
Online ad sales are growing very slowly in the regions, faster at the national level and paid gaming is drying up, according to Trinity Mirror’s interim financial results for the 17 weeks to October 30.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 12, 2011 5:14 AM
A TV producer, a rugby club and and a university are the latest players to try filling a content gap in Neath and Port Talbot, the south Wales towns left without a local newspaper when Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) folded its Neath and Port Talbot Guardians in 2009.
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Robert Andrews
Aug 12, 2011 5:25 AM
Trinity Mirror’s national news wing is set to start charging for some content this autumn, to arrest falling digital revenue.
CEO Sly Bailey told City analysts: “Expect significant developments to the Mirror.co.uk and MirrorFootball.co.uk sites in the fourth quarter. The MirrorFootball app will move to a freemium model.”
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Josh Halliday
MediaGuardian
Aug 11, 2011 6:38 PM
As civil unrest engulfed the streets of English cities from Birmingham to Manchester, news-hungry readers flocked to the websites of local newspapers which have experienced record levels of online traffic since the riots broke out. The Manchester Evening News, one of Britain’s largest regional titles, provided round-the-clock coverage as rioting…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 25, 2011 10:31 AM
Angered by the latest in what have been successive job cuts at Trinity Mirror’s Media Wales division, on-site NUJ chapel father Martin Shipton has put his finger on why news publishers’ revenue is falling…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 22, 2011 11:34 AM
—Joost: The P2P online premium video streaming company Joost, founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are no longer involved but it’s still kicking about under current owners Adconion, who have today promoted Maria Cadbury to the position of general manager. Under Adconion, the company has pivoted to become a…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 21, 2011 12:19 PM
Since the News of the World hacking scandal broke a couple of weeks ago, several figures, like Prime Minister David Cameron, have taken pains to emphasize how it’s not just one tabloid that is guilty of the practice. But now we are starting to see the signs of those others…
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Peter Preston
TheObserver (Guardian)
Jul 13, 2011 8:14 AM
So, thank you and goodbye, News International? Goodbye Times, Sunday Times and Sun as well as the News of the World? Goodbye, for that matter, Sky News – and maybe even News Corp.‘s (NSDQ: NWS) 30% holding in BSkyB? (NYSE: BSY) The idea has been floating around ever since James…
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Robert Andrews
May 12, 2011 5:11 AM
Digital sales at Trinity Mirror’s national publishing are falling, because its pay-to-play bingo site goes on suffering from heightened competition.
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 3, 2011 9:43 AM
Trinity Mirror’s acquisition of GMG Regional Media helped boost earnings for the UK publisher, but overall revenues were broadly flat and sent the company’s stock down. Looking for new sources for earnings, Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is even contemplating some form of paid content for certain operations, an option that…
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Roy Greenslade
MediaGuardian
Jan 19, 2011 4:03 AM
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) has closed two publications. Birmingham Post Lite, the free paper launched in April last year in opposition to the launch of The Birmingham Press, has been quietly suspended.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 12, 2011 6:58 AM
Trinity Mirror’s regional digital director Chris Bunyan was made redundant in August, when the news publisher split the role in two. Now he’s becoming managing director of Localstars, a local video advertising service.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 15, 2010 8:15 PM
The CEO of Britain’s biggest newspaper publisher nailed how peers are pondering a post-web future with familiar old business rules. Delivering a Media Society lecture in London on Monday, Trinity Mirror‘s Sly Bailey welcomed “The Three Ps” of portability, personalisation and payment mechanisms, which she said “will allow us to…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 11, 2010 4:37 AM
Sly Bailey’s Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says its recent acquisition of the 50 percent of Fish4 it did not already own will add £3 million to its digital recruitment advertising in its first full year of ownership, suggesting Fish4 had been on course for £6 million in revenue.
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