14 December 2008 – 1:28 am
Earlier this year Lord Fowler and his House of Lords colleagues published a report on the future ownership of the news – a worthy and, no doubt, genuine bid by central Government to try and get a grip on where the UK media industry was heading.
Given the state of this Media Nation of ours six [...]
An hour after writing the post below and out of the darkness that is the UK provincial newspaper industry comes this…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/19/trinitymirror.pressandpublishing
…65 jobs to go; and more to follow if they can’t find a buyer for their clutch of weekly titles…
Several lines stand out… not least this one: Trinity Mirror’s three Birmingham titles will be served [...]
For obvious reasons, this fascinates me…
And apologies about being a couple of days out-of-date; blame www.2gether08.com – and fair play to Mr Steve Moore for organising said event.
But anyway, the suggestion that TrinityMirror and Johnston would be best advised throwing their hand in together…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sharewatch/market-report-broker-moots-merger-of-trinity-and-johnston-858351.html
Or more particularly…
“ABN Amro said that, given the problems faced by the [...]
Given events that are fast befalling TrinityMirror today…
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=41543&c=1
and, of course, here…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/30/trinitymirror.pressandpublishing
and here…
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2008/06/trinity_mirror_the_end_is_nigh.html
… you do have to wonder just how that all sits with the Newspaper Society’s ‘very upbeat’ view of the world.
The best line came from Citi Investment Research.
“The advertising environment remains volatile and there is no sign of the classified market bottoming yet,” they [...]
Give the walk we walk and the talk we try to talk, it would be wholly remiss not to give Lord Fowler’s epic work a mention.
The House of Lords’ report on ‘The Ownership Of The News’, Vol 1, is clearly a worthy document and for those of you with a couple of hours to spare, [...]