GMEN’s reshuffle, renaming and relaunch of its weekly Manchester Metro News title, has been confirmed for Friday 25 May.
Kate Stirrup
The new title is to be called Trafford Metro and will be edited by Kate Stirrup, currently deputy editor of the Salford Advertiser.
The existing title will disappear from that day and the circulation will be reduced by approximately two thirds to circa 100,000 copies a week, centred on a much reduced geographical area.
Stirrup and her team will be relocating to Stockport, from where they will also be putting together the weekly 16 page Metro Magazine pull-out. The pull-out will have a larger circulation, approximately 200,000 copies, as it will be distributed with the South Manchester Reporter, Stockport Times, Wilmslow Express and the Trafford Metro itself.
Stirrup joined the South Manchester Reporter in 2001 having completed her NCTJ post grad course at Liverpool Community College. In 2004 she moved to the Salford Advertiser as a sub and became deputy in 2005.
"I am delighted to be editing both the new Trafford Metro newspaper and the already established Metro Magazine” said Stirrup. “I'm looking forward to working with deputy editor Lauren Steadman and reporter Helen Clifton, who I am sure will bring a great deal of talent and enthusiasm to the publications."
Stirrup and her team are able to call upon the considerable additional resources of GMEN as required.
It is believed that none of the MEN’s other staff who presently work on the Metro, including Tim Oliver, Paul Ogden and Paul R Taylor, were interested in relocating to the new Stockport office.
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