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The British newspaper chain Trinity Mirror has had some significant success online, both in terms of traffic growth and revenue, by experimenting with standalone sites that have been built quickly by small teams — and are also killed quickly if they don’t perform
Trinity Mirror is experimenting with two sites aimed at social-sharing or “viral” content, and the most recent of these — called Ampp3d — is aimed at trying to make data-driven journalism and news stories more shareable
In a world of £9.99 tablet newspaper subscriptions, two UK red-tops are ditching their cover price entirely for their debut iPad editions. Does this free digital move point the way for the industry?
Publishers reliant on classified advertising are getting hurt by the UK’s fragile local economy. Some are now desperately courting alternative advertising models, but our earnings round-up shows their growth is so far being wiped out.
Online earnings are falling despite booming audiences at leading UK news publisher Trinity Mirror, caught in a confluence of circumstances that prompt the big question — does content pay?
From the death spiral of ad downturn, digital audience migration and a thousand cuts, one man emerges to try some long-expected consolidation in the local news market. But can the proposed Local World company get going?
He quit HMV’s digital turnaround. Now new Trinity Mirror CEO Simon Fox says the UK news publisher must become leaner and abort its new Groupon clone to fund better apps and websites for its newspapers.
Simon Fox may be exiting a traditional company plagued by declining analogue content, but that will remain his top challenge, after news publisher Trinity Mirror named him its new CEO.
The staff and some leading shareholders of one of the UK’s leading news publishers have got their way – Trinity Mirror CEO Sly Bailey will leave the company after 10 years by year’s end.
Some low-hanging fruit in newspapers’ shrivelling orchard – Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says it is investing in a Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) copycat…
Some of the latest hirings and exits in brief from the world of digital media business…
As it lays off another 75 staff and faces questions over CEO Sly Bailey’s salary, Trinity Mirror’s Mirror Group Newspapers is relaunching it…
So it’s redundancy time once again. First, at the two Telegraph titles and now at the Mirror trio.
UK news publisher Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is continuing to build up its digital marketing business by acquiring Sunderland-based email mar…
Last week, I gave online evidence to a Welsh Assembly committee’s inquiry in to the future of media.
Here are some words of wisdom from John Meehan, former editor of the Hull Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT), in an InPublishing article, Sustaining com…
Former Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) digital marketing director Paul Hood, who was made redundant in the publisher’s recent reorganisation, will…
Online ad sales are growing very slowly in the regions, faster at the national level and paid gaming is drying up, according to Trinity Mirr…
A TV producer, a rugby club and and a university are the latest players to try filling a content gap in Neath and Port Talbot, the south Wal…
Trinity Mirror’s national news wing is set to start charging for some content this autumn, to arrest falling digital revenue.
CEO Sly Baile…
As civil unrest engulfed the streets of English cities from Birmingham to Manchester, news-hungry readers flocked to the websites of local n…
Angered by the latest in what have been successive job cuts at Trinity Mirror’s Media Wales division, on-site NUJ chapel father Martin Shipt…
— Joost: The P2P online premium video streaming company Joost, founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are no longer involved but it’s…
Since the News of the World hacking scandal broke a couple of weeks ago, several figures, like Prime Minister David Cameron, have taken pain…
So, thank you and goodbye, News International? Goodbye Times, Sunday Times and Sun as well as the News of the World? Goodbye, for that matte…
Digital sales at Trinity Mirror’s national publishing are falling, because its pay-to-play bingo site goes on suffering from heightened comp…
Trinity Mirror’s acquisition of GMG Regional Media helped boost earnings for the UK publisher, but overall revenues were broadly flat and se…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) has closed two publications. Birmingham Post Lite, the free paper launched in April last year in opposition to the…
Trinity Mirror’s regional digital director Chris Bunyan was made redundant in August, when the news publisher split the role in two. Now he’…
The CEO of Britain’s biggest newspaper publisher nailed how peers are pondering a post-web future with familiar old business rules. Deliveri…
Sly Bailey’s Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says its recent acquisition of the 50 percent of Fish4 it did not already own will add £3 million to…
You won’t be surprised to learn that I am an unrepentant advocate for professional journalism – and I don’t give a damn if that sounds eli…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is topping off its ongoing digital exec overhaul with a revamp to its top-tier line-up it says is designed to “acc…
The network the UK newspaper business set up, in the web’s early days, to share the nascent online classified ads business will now be the p…
— IPC Media: The publisher is promoting Simon Loxham (pictured), web technology head of its Southbank and Connect brands for women’s titles…
The digital content director of Trinity Mirror’s national-level Mirror Group news group will leave in January to spearhead a new business di…
— Trinity Mirror: Regionals’ digital director Chris Bunyan’s role is becoming redundant in a reshuffle, replaced by two new roles – a digit…
It’s been clear, for at least three years now, that local papers, which have been laying off editorial staff, should probably welcome in the…
In the phone call to discuss half-year earnings Thursday morning, a technical glitch prevented Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO Sly Bailey from…
UK national and regional news publisher Trinity Mirror’s digital income for the first half of this year is down by £300,000 to £18.6 milli…
By Roy Greenslade: Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is to make 200 editorial staff across its three national titles – the Daily and Sunday Mirror,…
Some debates circling the industry currently got down to brass tacks at a Westminster Media Forum conference on The Future Of News on Thursd…
The Sly Bailey-run news publisher’s digital income, during the 17 weeks to May 2, is down, even compared with 2009’s horrific corresponding…
— Stats: Smartphone adoption grew 70 percent in the UK last year, compared to France (48 percent), Germany (34 percent), Spain (27 percent)…
The ad sales slump in newspapers is still proving to be a drag on Trinity Mirror’s results, but the media group will not move to an all-out…
Since Sainsbury’s is helping Yahoo sell better ads, let’s roll with the supermarket analogies, courtesy of Mirror Group Newspapers’ digital…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) still sees value in local newspapers, even if Guardian Media Group doesn’t. It’s buying GMG Regional Media – with…
It was The Sun’s publisher wot done it first, but now Mirror.co.uk’s followed suit, blocking news aggregator NewsNow from crawling its news…
Guardian Media Group has confirmed it’s having some kind of talks with rival publishers, after Telegraph.co.uk reported GMG “has discussed s…
— Trinity Mirror: The Daily Mirror publisher is releasing two paid-for iPhone apps in January for its standalone gossip site 3am.co.uk and…
The charge The Mirror associate editor Matt Kelly has led against search engine optimisation has earned him a promotion – to the newly-creat…
The Mirror’s associate editor urged the news business to rely less on search engines and more on its journalism, in a World Newspaper Congre…
The news biz spiral goes on, the casualties keep coming. The latest – the Press Association is cutting seven of its 100 regional reporters,…
— Wired: Polymath and Wired UK associate editor Ben Hammersley “has decided to cut his time commitment to the magazine to allow him to purs…
We know regional newspaper publishers, making about a third less money than last year, are in trouble. But the stones under which Trinity Mi…
If Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) was hoping its online revenue growth would help offset the crippling declines in its newspaper businesses, it’s…
By Jason Deans: Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is making more cuts at its Liverpool operation, which publishes titles including the Liverpool Ech…
The decline of the UK’s big city newspapers goes on and on. Trinity Mirror’s Birmingham Post & Mail were hit by a new round of 82 editorial…
If the emerging “hyperlocal” journalism upstarts are to succeed, they’ll need a business model.
Regional sports journalist Rick Waghorn, wh…
One of the fastest-growing audience sectors right now is the unemployed. So Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) has taken Workthing, the free-to-use r…
— Trinity closures: More local weeklies bite the dust: Trinity Mirror’s paid-for Whitchurch Herald, the free Wrexham Chronicle and Mid-Ches…
Little sympathy for Google’s office fire from Mirror.co.uk associate editor Matt Kelly…
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If you thought the severe cuts in the newspaper industry last year and in the early part of 2009 were the end of the matter, think again. As…
For those who missed our October story, the Association of Online Publishers has just published the video of Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CE…
Mirror.co.uk has now flipped the switch on its new 3am.co.uk gossip site, as we first reported last month it would, spinning out of the pape…
While Rupert Murdoch marches News Corp toward a 2010 pay-for-content future, Mirror Group Newspapers is first still fixed on building loya…
Trinity Mirror’s MirrorFootball.co.uk is due to go live on Thursday, in time for the new season (Update: MGN says the launch has shifted to…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is planning to spin several specialist content sites off its core newspaper sites in the next few months. MirrorFo…
The property and job classifieds downturn meant Trinity Mirror’s online income slipped back 16.5 percent annually to £18.6 million in the h…
— Trinity Mirror: Former Five and Flextech CEO Jane Lighting is stepping up to chair the news publisher’s remuneration committee, which she…
— Cardiff freesheet: Trinity Mirror’s Media Wales division is axing its free, weekly Cardiff Post and launching a new free, weekly title Ec…
— SunTalk: The audio extension of News International’s leading red-top The Sun, is looking to extend its reach to British tourists and expa…
Just as football clubs get rid of their under-performing players in the summer, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has shut down Rivals.net, a network of fan…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) has revealed plans to shut 12 newspapers in the Midlands, axe “approximately” 94 jobs and shut two offices as part…
So if the big UK regional newspaper publishers can’t monetise online local news — just ask Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press — what chance…
We’ve known for a couple of years that UK newspapers are getting plenty of welcome traffic from overseas. Whilst that’s mostly thanks to ABC…
When even your online ad sales are going backward, you know something’s wrong. By April 26 this year, Sly Bailey’s Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI)…
Most publishers were surprised by the speed and ferocity of the advertising recession when it hit the UK in Q3 and Q4 last year — and this…
— Bablegum: After funding its first original documentary last month, VOD platform Babelgum has now commissioned a documentary series design…
Up-against-it publisher Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is trying to save more money by scrapping a layer of three execs from its Midlands and Nor…
It’s not as though Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO Sly Bailey hasn’t made her views against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and for professional journalis…
— Trinity Mirror: Staying true to plans to merge and modernise the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newsrooms, Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) has no…
Trinity Mirror’s north west and north Wales division appears to be shifting the direction of its Liverpool.com metro website and printed mag…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) clearly doesn’t think local is dead and buried just yet. This week, it’s quietly unveiling a new local business di…
— Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) Mobile: Having launched 13 mobile sites for its leading regional papers last year, Trinity Mirror is now steppi…
Nothing like a hard dose of reality – except this one came from the man on whose shoulders many hopes are pinned for a media business roadma…
— Trinity Mirror: Already a vocal supporter of a relaxation in the M&A rules for local media, Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO Sly Bailey has…
Struggling Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) has appointed online media veteran Richard Ayers at its regional web publishing director as it continue…
— Shortlist: Free, weekly men’s magazine Shortlist, founded by former FHM editor Mike Soutar, made a pre-tax loss of £2.7 million in the 1…
With Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) just about keeping its head above water in the recession, with its full-year 2008 results showing revenue an…
Trinity Mirror’s 2008 digital revenues were 27.1 percent higher year-on-year at £43.6 million — but it wasn’t enough to stop the company r…
First Cardiff, then Birmingham, now Glasgow. The latest Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) publishing centre to get a multimedia revamp and restructu…
We can safely say we’ve never seen this before: the Trinity Mirror-owned Teesside Gazette is recruiting 70 school students as bloggers for i…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is getting more serious about its reader community strategy, planning to thread interactivity throughout its sites…
— Newsquest/Gannett: The long, long-running restructuring programme at Newsquest shows no signs of slowing: ten advertising staff are repor…
— Archant: Privately-owned regional newspaper group Archant is making at least 20 staff redundant at its main office in Ipswich, home of th…
Newsquest’s weekly car classifieds magazine Exchange & Mart is to scrap its print edition and go online-only in February, putting 80 jobs at…
Newspapers around the country are restructuring–so how much money are they saving from these moves? Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says it has s…
As 2008 draws to a close, one rather big problem is coming back to bite media companies: mounting debt. According to the Independent on Sun…
On top of the cuts, closures and restructures pummelling regional newspapers, publishers are increasingly considering outsourcing jobs or wh…
They were two of the country’s biggest publishing companies and both were known for returning high margins to shareholders and investors. Bu…
— InSkin Virgin Media’s sales house IDS is losing associate diretor Phil Townend to InSkin Media, where he will be commercial director in t…
Thursday was a day among days for the UK newspaper industry and its on-going process of cutting staff and restructuring as newsrooms across…
— Trinity Mirror: Redundancies are being sought at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, the publisher tells J.co.uk, after rumours Trinity wan…
— Cambridge News cuts: The regional newspaper casualties keep on piling up. Today it
Mainstream publishers are queuing up to sign online shopping deals with e-tailers and price comparison sites in the run-up to Christmas – in…
It’s the same picture as Johnston Press yesterday – an alarming nosedive in print ad sales, and the digital cash cow is jumping off a cliff,…
— Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) buys property search tool: Beleaguered national and regional newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has snapped up…
Telegraph.co.uk is amongst the first UK publishers to get in to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android on the bottom floor. The paper, which already ha…
The Trinity Mirror-owned Birmingham Post relaunches on Monday as a tabloid-sized, business-focused newspaper as part of a move by the publis…
— DAB radio audience grows: Channel 4 may have just ditched plans to launch three DAB radio stations, casting more doubt on an already shak…
It’s not as if no-one anticipated what might occupy Sly Bailey’s keynote to the Association of Online Publishers conference in London this m…
— Trinity Mirror: Mark Hollinshead has been appointed the new managing director of Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) nationals division, combinin…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is adding several European publishers to Nokia Media Network, its mobile advertising network that was launched in February…
You’ve got to admire Sly Bailey’s optimism. Despite profits falling 15 percent in the half-year alone, the Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO tol…
This is becoming a pattern. Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) half-year profits to June are down 15 percent to £80.5 million, despite digital reven…
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— Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) Mobile: UK publisher Trinity Mirror is developing mobile sites…
Mirror.co.uk and Telegraph.co.uk have refreshed their websites this week, just as Guardian.co.uk completes its £15 million, 18-month redesi…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) suggests digital is the only glimmer of hope in what was a “marked” slump in ad revenues during May and June – a d…
— News Magazines: News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is closing its News Magazines unit, which publishes the LoveIt women’s mag and BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) cu…
You’re reading it here first… Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) hopes to launch a UK-wide network of soccer blogs, only tangentially related to it…
Not that the House Of Lords has any direct jurisdiction over the broadcaster, but Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO Sly Bailey had only negative…
How many times now have we seen companies report big digital growth in an otherwise shrinking market? Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) digital reve…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is continuing to shuffle the multimedia chairs at its regional division, promoting Liverpool Daily Post and Echo a…
— BBC mulls OpenID: The BBC is announcing support for OpenID. Sort of. The broadcaster said it had joined the OpenID Foundation, leading th…
City University electronic publishing academic Neil Thurman presented a paper on online news video at the ninth International Symposium on O…
National and regional news publisher Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is buying Liverpool-based web design firm Rippleffect Studios for up to £5.8…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is appointing former Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) portal management director Chris Bunyan as the digital director for…
Digital revenue at Daily Record and Birmingham Mail publisher Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) was up 35.6 percent to £34.3 million throughout 200…
– AOL: AOL (NYSE: TWX) Europe is promoting head of software and product engineering Paul Cutter to VP technology, leading engineering, infra…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is continuing on its classifieds sites buy: it has now acquired The Career Engineer, an online recruitment site sp…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) plans to tap its network of 53 regional newspaper websites to give the national Mirror.co.uk some local legs. Mirr…
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Two information publishers have released pre-Christmas trading updates ahead of the publication of their full official earnings for the seco…
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is buying HomesOverseas and WhatHouse publisher Globespan Media for up to £5.9 million as UK newspaper operators…
– Trinity Mirror: The newspaper group will launch a multi-platform mobile service to eventually deliver regional news that could be tailored…
The stuttering attempt to sell off some of its newspapers has forced Trinity-Mirror to take its eye of the digital prize, the company has ad…
After Telegraph.co.uk, BBC News (soon) and Guardian Unlimited (coming), Trinity-Mirror’s Welsh newspapers under the Media Wales imprint are…
[By Dianne See Morrison] Trinity-Mirror has hired Rick Gleave, former group head of News Corp
– Harvard Business Review: One of the US leading business school magazines on management has launched a new site aimed at UK-based readers,…
The Daily Mirror will revamp its website again, the second time in 12 months at the beginning of next year, with more comment and analysis a…
— The Trinity Mirror group is making some waves in digital content. Yesterday it announced it would be taking on Max Alexander (formerly ch…
If the Teesside Evening Gazette is anything to go by, Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) strategy to localise its network of regional newspaper sit…
