Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Trinity Mirror titles launch wiki for the North-East
Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:28
"Trinity Mirror put out a national call to staff to come forward with bright ideas in a bid to find 'the next big thing.' … The competition was won by web developer Louise Midgley, who works for Trinity's North-East division… [She] has already received a cash prize and … will also win a future share of any profits from her idea."
Wiki North East - An interactive archive for and about the people, places and events of the North East
Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:21
A clever idea from Trinity Mirror's papers in Newcastle and Teesside: "Wiki North East is a collaboration of editorial articles and user generated content for and about the people, places and events of the North East."
Independent: Will the internet survive the economic meltdown?
Monday, 6 October 2008, 09:51
"It's also worth noting that big-brand publishers were generally delighted when the world came crashing down on the first wave of internet entrepreneurs. It allowed them to fall back on old ideology and a degree of complacency about the digital world set in that in some cases took several years to shake off. The schadenfreude they showed then certainly wouldn't be repeated this time around because they have so much more invested in it."
LiverpoolEcho.co.uk: News in Merseyside
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 17:33
The Liverpool Echo's new geocoded news stories.
MediaGuardian.co.uk: Trinity Mirror to launch map-based news service on regional websites
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 17:31
"Trinity Mirror has launched a map-based news service on the Liverpool Echo website and plans to expand it across its other regional sites. The site will geo-tag news stories so users can search for news stories via postcode."
Evening Standard: Regional papers face bigger woes than just an economic downturn
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 13:03
Roy Greenslade: "The crisis for regional papers is structural, stretching back way before this current economic slump and prior to the ubiquity of computer screens."
Times Online: The reading is all gloomy for newspaper proprietors
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:13
"[O]n a local level, papers are losing classified advertising market share to non-newspaper websites. JPMorgan thus cautioned that UK newspaper stocks, which have fallen by 40 per cent since the start of the year, compared with US papers down by 48 per cent, could fall farther."
Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 12:12
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"Over the next few weeks we’ll be rolling out a fresh new look and exciting new features across Mirror.co.uk."
Friday, 4 July 2008, 07:25
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Peter Kirwan: "[A]nyone thinking of buying Trinity Mirror at the moment should think in terms of paying money for its digital operation — and picking up print for free as part of the deal."
Monday, 23 June 2008, 10:07
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In a presentaion given as part of a job interview, Joanna Geary notes that according to Ofcom, two-thirds of people in Birmingham use mobiles to access the Internet and that this representes a huge, untapped market for regional papers.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 13:25
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"The Birmingham Post has become the first UK newspaper to cover an event by both broadcasting live on the internet and blogging."
Sunday, 25 May 2008, 08:25
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"With a new communications act still three years away, the rest of the media industry is watching intently. Trinity Mirror’s [Sly] Bailey said: ‘Given [Google's] strengths and market-leading position, it is critical that they remain true to their corpor
Friday, 23 May 2008, 17:49
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"Telegraph.co.uk is set to introduce a raft of ecommerce propositions across its site this summer as it aims to bring in revenue channels beyond traditional advertising."
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 13:41
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"Birmingham Post features writer Jo Ind has started incorporating Del.icio.us social bookmarks into her articles. … phrasing the link as ’suggested links’ (rather than ‘iPM Delicious’) and positioning it at the bottom of an article rather than a
