Tag Archives: Project Stamford

TrinityMirror head for the hills and plant their final flag atop Fort Dunlop; in their fleeing wake lie 65 jobs and a weekly wasteland…

19 August 2008 – 9:00 pm

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 [...]

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Bit by bit, the pieces start to fall into place. Let’s give a FaceBook-esque ‘StamfordPeople’ a whirl; how to find yourself a baby-sitter in 2008…

24 June 2008 – 11:09 am

I guess we ought to do the introductions first; or rather, the credit.
I stumbled across a guy called Patrick Thornton last night who – from a distance – appears to be one of Jay Rosen’s ‘posse’ out in the States. In that he’s just taken over from Knight News Challenge winner David Cohn in working [...]

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Down, down, deeper and down… ‘Project Stamford’ waits in line; for now, we will sit and watch and see how Mr Krishnan fares

12 June 2008 – 11:53 am

As regular readers of this blog will know, I have a growing soft spot for Stamford. Indeed, we have ‘Project Stamford’ waiting in the wings… http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=75
Which is why the fate of Johnston Press intrigues me. They, of course, are the owners of the last paid-for newspaper in Stamford, the venerable Stamford Mercury, now 20% owned [...]

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OK, why don’t we concentrate our minds and give ourselves a gauntlet to pick up. Let’s try ‘Project Stamford’.

27 May 2008 – 5:35 pm

I’m not sure why, particularly. Or maybe I do.
Anyway, Stamford is starting to intrigue me. It started several weeks ago with news that the local newspaper – the Stamford Herald & Post – was one of eight, free weekly newspapers that Trinity Mirror were reluctantly forced to close… http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=56 having failed to find a buyer [...]

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