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Trinity Mirror announces further job losses for Merseyside, Daily Post looks set to suffer

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Wednesday, 04 November 2009

Trinity Mirror North West and Wales has released a statement this afternoon announcing that it is looking to reduce editorial numbers at its Merseyside base as a result of "the pressures all parts of the media sector are currently experiencing due to the ongoing economic downturn."

The Liverpool Daily Post is expected to bear the brunt of the cuts.

Trinity, which has already shut its printing presses in Liverpool and merged the Echo and Post newsrooms, is now looking to make further efficiencies across its payroll.

This will result in "a reduction of approximately 17 job roles in the editorial department" - a number that it hopes to achieve, where possible, through voluntary redundancies.

Wilde

Sara Wilde, MD of the company's North West and Wales division, said in the statement: "It is vital that we continue to make and take these difficult decisions and I believe these changes will ensure we have a viable, robust and thriving business which continues to provide jobs and media services to the communities we serve.”

Staff were informed of the move today and have now entered into a consultation process.

A Trinity spokesperson informed How-Do that "nothing is set in stone but the redundancies are expected to come from the Daily Post."

Some regional observers, not least those affiliated to the NUJ, will no doubt see the development in light of Trinity's recent move to bring the publication of the Echo forward to the morning.

NUJ assistant organiser Jenny Lennox said at the time: “The company says this won’t harm the Daily Post but the staff don’t believe it."

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Comments (11)

1 By sad but, on 04-11-2009 13:25
... inevitable I'm afraid. Will the title even be around come next year? I for one hope so. Good luck to the staff there.

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2 By DP fan, on 04-11-2009 14:54
Let's hope (and pray) this isn't the deathknell for the wonderful Daily Post. It's the only local paper worth reading and despite being starved of resources manages to deliver high quality journalism. What is needed is for the so-called Great and the Good to put pressure on TM (in London) to spare the Daily Post. Unless of course some would be glad to see it go - I sincerely hope not. To those who want to save it I say this .... BUY it or lose it and remember, when it's gone its gone.

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3 By Also a DP fan, on 04-11-2009 16:24
What the great and good also need to do is spend in the DP. Like many morning newspapers, a few copies will go into large organisations and then be handed around. If you want it, pay for it. They also need to get involved with sponsoring things the DP does - awards, supplements etc. The DP does a cracking job but clearly needs financial support from the very community which would bemoan its death

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4 By ex-tm, on 04-11-2009 21:48
Making the Daily Post an online only newspaper has been on the, "Let's consider this agenda" for the past 12 months and this is what will eventually happen in order to loo after the, "cash cow" e.g. the Echo. Tm would be better off laying off some of the useless senior management that they have kept on the team for God knows what reason. There's a few Ad Directors there that should be very worried about their futures.

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5 By isay, on 05-11-2009 07:15
i miss the saturday post. that is i miss not buying it.

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6 By Ex-Daily Post staffer, on 05-11-2009 09:50
The DP has been dying a lingering death for years. No-one these days wants to spend 50p on a flimsy few pages of largely wire copy.

Here's an original idea: Kill off the Post, merge the Echo and Post online, and create a hyperlocal site that actually serves its patch. Monetisation won't be an issue if you actually give people the content they want.

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7 By Also an ex-staffer, on 05-11-2009 10:21
Despite having, for many years, a death threat hovering above its head, the Daily Post has somehow managed to survive. Just look how much of the content feeds the local radio and regional television news bulletins and you get some idea of its journalistic value. It's actually not 50 but six bob in old money and I am happy to part with that sum each day. Your suggestion of a merged Echo/Post on-line news service will mean little mor nothing of the journalistic qualities of the Daily Post and all of the p*** pot poor editorial values of the Echo. Let the NUJ leadership call on TM to promise continuation of a printed Daily Post as a price for economies. Remember this a smaller DP now can hopefully rebuild when things pick up. It is closes it will never return. And Liverpool would be much, much poorer without it. TM should sack the people who manage the ECHO and let the Daily Post editorial management take over the ECHO to bring their high editorial values to that excuse of a newspaper. That could just work.

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8 By WH Smith, on 05-11-2009 13:24
It's 60p actually. And for 28 pages

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9 By ohffs, on 05-11-2009 13:32
"Liverpool would be much, much poorer without it. TM should sack the people who manage the ECHO and let the Daily Post editorial management take over the ECHO to bring their high editorial values to that excuse of a newspaper."

The same people are responsible for both papers; there is no separate editorial team.

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10 By Richard Simcox , on 05-11-2009 16:23
Good luck to the NUJ chapel. The rest of the union is behind you.

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11 By DP Staffer, on 06-11-2009 08:10
Rubbish. What does it mean that the union is behind you? Is this the same union that devoted two page in the last issue to revealing how much better off people were after they'd taken redundancy in Liverpool last year? That hardly inspires confidence in the union, does it?

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