Trinity Mirror announces exit for Birmingham Post and Mail editors
October 20th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Job losses, Jobs, Newspapers
UPDATE – Full report on changes at BPM Media now available on Journalism.co.uk.
Trinity Mirror has announced that Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson and Birmingham Post editor Marc Reeves will step down from their roles by the end of the year, as part of wider changes at BPM Media.
Dave Brookes, Coventry Telegraph editor, has been named as editor-in-chief across all BPM titles (Post, Mail, Telegraph and Sunday Mercury) and as editor of the Birmingham Mail.
The changes, which are the result of a consultation at Trinity’s Birmingham division, will include:
- The Post going weekly
- A risk of approximately 40 editorial redundancies
- A further 42 redundancies from the transport, distribution and newspaper sales departments
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