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Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Multi-media journalists at Liverpool’s Trinity Mirror titles are giving readers a live account of their new editorial changes.

Late last year Trinity Mirror announced a major overhaul of its regional titles, with 43 jobs in Merseyside at risk.

Part of the plan was to bring in more multimedia journalists, who could not just write copy for the paper and internet, but act as photographers and video journalists (VJ’s).

The live blog comes from the Liverpool and Southport offices:

Post and Echo blog newsroom integration
Multimedia newsroom
"From both these centres, our top team of multimedia journalists and image journalists bring you the very best content for our wide range of titles, including the Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post, Southport Visiter, Wirral News, Ormskirk and Skelmersdale Advertiser Series, Crosby Herald, Formby Times, Bootle Times and Merseymart & Star Series including the Maghull & Aintree Star."

Using a Twitter feed, the journalists update the site regularly and readers can provide feedback.

Although reporters may be playing into the hands of those who want an end to traditional newspapers:

"This is unquestionably way more exciting than reading the papers. Why don't you all become pro bloggers [...] and we can read the news as it happens, rather than the news as it may have happened, yesterday or last week..." wrote one user.

It’s not the first time either paper has been involved in live blogging, indeed the Post was the first UK regional to trial the system back in May last year.

The blog will continue for the rest of the week and next week they will start producing news bulletins for the web.

 

 

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 1 By Linda website, on 25-02-2009 10:44
Like "hamsters on a wheel" springs to mind here. 
 
Hope accuracy is not being lost as they race to post their "tweets"!
 2 By Pan O'Scouse, on 26-02-2009 06:46
Why don't they all become pro-bloggers? A little matter of who would pay their salaries, dear boy.

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