#soe09: Audio – Trinity Mirror’s Neil Benson on newspapers as PR agencies
November 17th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Events, Journalism
There was a mixed reaction (as you might expect from a room full of newspaper editors) to Trinity Mirror Regionals’ editorial director Neil Benson’s suggestion yesterday that newspaper groups could make money from running ‘arm’s length PR agencies’.
Journalism.co.uk spoke to Benson at the Society of Editors conference to find out more about the scheme in Northumberland (in which he refers to Brian Aitken, editor of the Journal) and the potential for newspaper groups to work with local authorities:
Below he explains why newspapers running PR agencies in-house could work:
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