Scotland on Sunday: Trinity Mirror seeks rule change to allow mergers of newspaper titles - Scotland on Sunday

According to Terry Murden of the Scotland on Sunday, Trinity Mirror is lobbying for media ownership rules to be relaxed to allow newspaper groups to merge their regional titles. Full story...

Tags: media ownership, newspaper groups, Scotland, Terry Murden, Trinity Mirror, Trinity Mirror PLC, United Kingdom

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Tracking UK newspaper share prices with Twitter

With a little a lot of help from our friends (take a bow Headshift’s Tim Duckett) there’s a new Twitter kid on the block - @jocoukshares.

Following Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press’ exits from the FTSE 250, the aim is to provide almost real-time share price information for the newspaper and magazine publishing groups currently listed on the FTSE.

Below is a key to the company names:

FUTR - Future Publishing

CAU - Centaur

TNI - Trinity Mirror

INM - Independent News & Media

REL - Reed Elsevier

PSON - Pearson

JPR - Johnston Press

DMGT - Daily Mail & General Trust

INF - Informa

NWS - News Corp

Tim’s made stirling progress with setting up feeds of the share prices to Twitter and there’s no reason why this couldn’t be expanded beyond newspapers and mags in the future.

However, suggestions about a ‘front-end’ for the project are welcome. Building a newspaper-share-price-feed-tracking widget will probably be one of my Christmas Eve tasks - any suggestions?

Tags: Christmas Eve, Daily Mail, Daily Mail & General Trust, Daily Mail and General Trust plc, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, FUTR - Future Publishing, Johnston Press, Johnston Press plc, JPR - Johnston Press, magazine publishing groups, NWS - News Corp, Pearson, Pearson PLC, Reed Elsevier, Reed Elsevier PLC, Tim Duckett, Trinity Mirror, Trinity Mirror PLC

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Redundancy round-up: 50 jobs to go at the Telegraph and 78 at Trinity Mirror

A day that saw plenty of job cut announcements. Here’s the roundup for this evening and Journalism.co.uk will update tomorrow.

• Trinity Mirror: 78 jobs to go as reported at Press Gazette and Hold the Front Page. Press Gazette reported that a restructure will see journalists divided into four centralised multimedia divisions:

“The publisher has today entered into a consultation period with staff and said it envisaged 59 editorial jobs would be cut. It said it was committed to voluntary redundancies where possible.

“The bulk of the job losses will come in Liverpool, where the 175-strong editorial team will be cut to 132 and the Liverpool Daily Post will scrap its Saturday edition.”

• The Telegraph: 50 jobs editorial jobs cut: Fifty editorial staff are to lose their jobs at Telegraph Media Group, management told staff today.

“It is understood the cuts represent a 13-14 per cent saving to the editorial budget and will be brought into effect by Christmas at the latest,” reports MediaGuardian.

Tags: Christmas, job cuts, Journalism.co.uk, Liverpool, Reorganization, Telegraph Media Group, The Liverpool Daily Post, the Telegraph, Trinity Mirror, Trinity Mirror PLC

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MediaGuardian: Trinity Mirror ad revenue falls by a fifth

Trinity Mirror has reported a fall by 21 per cent in underlying group advertising revenues since the end of June 2008, with property ad income ads down by nearly 50 per cent, reports the Guardian. Full story...

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Local newspaper sees high traffic for online memorial

By creating an online version of the newspaper’s announcements page, the Limerick Leader has made its site the ‘focal point for entire community’s grieving,’ a press release from iAnnounce, the company which developed the page, said.

More than 17,600 people have now visited the Limerick Leader’s iAnnounce page for 28 year old Shane Geoghegan, who was shot dead in Kilteragh, Ireland, at the weekend.

Since the page was set up 36 hours ago, more than 8,500 ‘virtual candles’ have been lit and 2,000 messages of condolence written.

“The unexpected death of such a popular man as Shane has affected this very close community,” said Alex Stitt, the managing director of iAnnounce, in the release.

“It is a sign of the internet age that they have turned to online messaging to express their shock and sorrow at what has happened.”

iAnnounce is  used by various newspapers in the Johnston Press, Trinity Mirror and Newsquest newspaper groups, and was developed to make use social network tools for newspaper birth, deaths and marriages notices.

Tags: Alex Stitt, iAnnounce, Ireland, Johnston Press, Johnston Press plc, Kilteragh, Newsquest, Newsquest PLC, Republic of Ireland, Shane Geoghegan, social network tools, the Limerick Leader, Trinity Mirror, Trinity Mirror PLC

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