Guardian: Guardian Media Group sells regional business to Trinity Mirror
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 11:39
"The deal is worth £44.8m to Guardian Media Group, with £7.4m in cash and Trinity Mirror releasing GMG from a £37.4m print contract. … Its Greater Manchester TV station, Channel M, and the local newspapers in Woking are not included in the deal."
Press Gazette: iPhone apps for Trinity Mirror nationals and websites
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 18:01
"[Trinity Mirror] will provide apps for its Daily Record and Daily Mirror newspapers free of charge; however it intends to charge a fee – which is yet to be set – for the [3am.co.uk and Mirrorfootball.co.uk] website apps when they launch in the New Year."
paidContent:UK: Hyperlocal Hopes May Be Blunted By Revenue Realities In 2010
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 09:24
"[If] you’re going to ask Newsquest to hear your hyperlocal partnership proposition, you better have a good proposition. The company’s digital managing director Roger Green spoke with refreshing honesty by saying he’s sick of upstart local businesses—or “zero-revenue publishers” as he calls them—looking for a free ride from the Gannett-owned publisher’s commercial mass."
Econsultancy: 3am site goes from swearing off SEO to keyword stuffing in 3 months
Monday, 7 December 2009, 23:00
Malcolm Coles (on November 18): "The Daily Mirror's 3am.co.uk gossip site has gone from disavowing SEO and promising to concentrate on building a loyal audience – to stuffing its HTML titles with as many keywords as it can think of. And then adding some more. Before finally making sure Britney is in there."
paidContent:UK: World Newspaper Congress: Mirror’s Kelly: We Must Put Search Engines In Their Place
Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 10:10
Matt Kelly: "Not recommendations from a search engine, but from a friend. That’s how to grow a meaningful audience."
MediaGuardian: Monkey goes to the Society of Editors conference
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 19:34
"Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger had an embarrassing admission to make during the presentation of the NCTJ awards for excellence in journalism at the Society of Editors bash in Bristol. "I should not really be doing this," Rusbridger told the room, "because I failed my NCTJ exams." Blimey – there's hope for us all."
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 10:30
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"The Mirror alone contributed around £70m of the group’s pre-tax profits of £185m last year, according to sources, but circulation continues to fall – declining by over 6 per cent year-on-year in July, and Bailey seems to have few ideas about how best t
Saturday, 7 July 2007, 09:52
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"Private equity houses Exponent and Barclays Private Equity are closing in on a deal to buy Trinity Mirror’s Midland newspaper titles for £160m-£180m."
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 07:42
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Paul Bradshaw: "Most impressive is a tagging system which allows users to click through to articles on the same subject/person – potentially making the accompanying ‘Related articles’ box redundant."
Saturday, 16 June 2007, 09:29
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Trinity Mirror’s regional editorial director Neil Benson comes out swinging against the "mountainous pile of pompous, tendentious, ill-informed claptrap" in a podcast by three blogging ‘hackademics’…
Saturday, 2 June 2007, 21:41
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Simon Jones: "I am leaving The Chronicle. After 18 months at the helm, I’ve decided to join the world of PR as head of communications at a London authority."
Friday, 6 April 2007, 11:13
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“[I]f you’re using a tool like Movable Type, which is platform designed for blogging, but it’s being used as a general content management system, is the output still a blog? Our answer: Who cares?”
