Trinity Mirror has made 1,200 people redundant and closed 27 newspaper titles since the start of last year, the company said today.The national and regional newspaper publisher was forced to close 27 titles over the course of last year and sell another four newspapers, and has not been able to rule out the possibility of… Continue reading Trinity Mirror cuts 1,200 jobs in 14 months
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Trinity Mirror is set to cut 70 journalists, almost a third of its editorial staff, from its Glasgow-based Scottish newspapers, including the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.As part of a radical shakeup at the publisher, editorial operations for Trinity Mirror’s Glasgow papers will be integrated, with the Daily Record editor appointed to the newly created… Continue reading Trinity Mirror set to make 70 redundancies
Redwood has signed a new contract with IT service company Fujitsu Services to launch a quarterly customer magazine and website to target the chief information officer (CIO) community.The first edition of the magazine, I, global intelligence for the CIO, will launch in April 2009 and will be delivered direct to CIOs across 10 European countries.Redwood… Continue reading Redwood to launch Fujitsu CIO magazine
Future is set to launch its second new title this year – a monthly magazine for triathletes called Triathlon Plus – following the launch of The Knitter last month.The magazine, which will hit the shelves on April 7 with a cover price of £3.99 and pagination of 148, will be produced in Bath and edited… Continue reading Future unveils second new magazine of the year
Condé Nast appears to have started a new LOVE affair with the launch of Katie Grand’s much-anticipated ‘fashion and fame’ glossy title…LOVE, a brand new magazine that promises “edgy and experimental” editorial, hit the shelves earlier this week – carefully planned to fall in line with London Fashion Week – but in times of economic… Continue reading Condé Nast’s new LOVE
Egmont is launching a dedicated in-house customer publishing business, called CanDo, to provide bespoke book publishing for brands.The seven-strong CanDo team, will report to Gillian Laskier, group sales director at Egmont, building on earlier projects such as the Mr Men/Little Miss ‘free for every reader’ book promotion with the Mirror newspaper and on-pack offers such… Continue reading Egmont UK launches customer publishing business
TV listing magazine What’s on TV has joined forces with mobile entertainment specialists K2 Media to launch a new direct-to-consumer mobile service.The new mobile service is set to feature up-to-the-minute TV and sport lisings by region, including both Sky and Freeview, as well as upcoming soap storylines, TV news and gossip, and TV and film… Continue reading What’s on TV magazine signs new mobile deal
Daily Newspaper MarketThe NRS figures for January to December 2008 show that Britain’s national newspaper market was down 2.3% overall year on year.There were big readership increases for the Financial Times and the Guardian in the Quality sector, however, while the Times was also up.In the Popular sector, the Daily Record recorded a readership increase… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: Jan – Dec 2008
Trinity Mirror has redesigned its 22 ultra-local sites in Teesside in a bid to integrate them with the main newspaper site and is also set to rollout the second phase of its mobile relaunch.The postcode specific sites, which originally launched in October 2007, have been redesigned to make it easier for readers to access news… Continue reading Trinity Mirror redesigns ultra-local sites
UBS has revised down its ad spending forecast for the year, with the new estimate putting online revenues at 1.4% growth in 2009, down from 10.4%. UBS analyst Matthieu Coppet has also downgraded 2010’s figure, although only slightly, from 13.8% to 11.2%. Globally, UBS expects newspaper ad revenues to fall 11.7% this year, with a… Continue reading UBS downgrades global ad forecast