UK: Trinity Mirror to close nine Midlands newspapers
Trinity Mirror, the newspaper group that owns the Daily Mirror, has announced plans to close nine local newspapers in the Midlands resulting in the loss of up to 120 jobs.The news, which comes amid a severe downturn in the advertising market, follows the closure of 27 Trinity titles over the past year and the sale […]
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UK: Trinity Mirror to close nine Midlands newspapers
Trinity Mirror, the newspaper group that owns the Daily Mirror, has announced plans to close nine local newspapers in the Midlands resulting in the loss of up to 120 jobs.The news, which comes amid a severe downturn in the advertising market, follows the closure of 27 Trinity titles over the past year and the sale […]
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Most newspaper Web sites have user-generated photo galleries, for which the organization passively solicits photos from the audience on different topics and local events. Tribune Interactive has taken user-generated content to a more proactive level this year, by seeking out photos posted on Flickr, a popular photo sharing site owned by Yahoo!, and then posting […]
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