Tales from the regional press frontline: ‘Management is obsessed with increasing our web hits at the expense of all else’
When a local newspaper’s star reporter takes redundancy at just 29 and then publicly denounces everything about the way his…
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Are there 1,000 Gareth Davieses out there? Let us know how your local press newsroom has changed
Many who have worked in the regional press will understand the sense of impotent rage felt by former star reporter for the…
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Editor axed by Trinity Mirror uses odd-numbered listicle to reflect on an ignominious exit
Herts and Essex Observer editor Paul Winspear took redundancy last month after ten years in the job. He has ruefully…
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Trinity Mirror boss hits back at claims Croydon Advertiser printing ‘clickbait’, says days when reporters wrote about interests are ‘over’
Trinity Mirror’s regional editorial director says he is “baffled” by claims made by former Croydon Advertiser chief reporter Gareth Davies that…
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Trinity Mirror reports massive growth after Local World acquisition as pension deficit surges
Trinity Mirror has recorded a huge leap in growth with adjusted operating profit up by 44 per cent to £69m…
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An award-winning local newspaper reporter has launched an excoriating attack on Trinity Mirror for reducing his paper to “listicles…scraped from…
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Trinity Mirror redundancies on former Local World titles in Herts and Essex see one editor take charge of three titles
Three newspapers will now be overseen by one editor following redundancies at Trinity Mirror titles in Hertfordshire and Essex. Harlow…
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Leicester Mercury drops weekend supplement More as it cuts features content
Leicester Mercury’s weekend magazine supplement, More, has published its last standalone edition as the paper’s features team is hit by…
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