Big changes for The Birmingham Post - reaction round-up
Aug 19, 2008 Author: Joanna | Filed under: UncategorizedWe’re just come back from a big announcement about the future of Trinity Mirror Midlands, part of that was a major announcement about the future of The Birmingham Post.
I think I want some of the dust to settle before blogging my own thought (and don’t want to gazump my Editor!), but I thought I’d provide a bundle of links to other people talking about what is happening.
I will post my thoughts a bit later, so if you want to leave some questions in the comments, I’ll try and answer them. Suffice to say there are some very interesting times ahead.
- - The Birmingham Post Editor, Marc Reeves, on the newspaper’s announced relaunch…
- …and he also blogs about it.
- Birmingham Post news story on the relaunch (we will update this during the day).
- There are a few interesting comments appearing on Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson’s blog.
- The Guardian’s report on the wider Trinity Mirror changes.
- …and documents the NUJ’s reaction to the announcements.
- The Guardian has now followed up with the story that we have all technically been made redundant.
- Brand Republic report.
- The Journalism.co.uk report on the Birmingham Post…
- …and it’s report on the wider Midland announcement…
- … and then on the change of roles for our editors.
- Holdthefrontpage.co.uk focuses on the new roles for our editors.
- … and the titles that are set to close…
- … and has now done a report on the job losses.
- Money invested and jobs lost lead in Press Gazette report on Trinity Mirror Midlands…
- … and a focus on the new tabloid sized Birmingham Post.
- The inaccurate corrected BBC report (it’s not The Post cutting 65 jobs, but TM Midlands) seems to miss many of the crucial details is here.
- The Express and Star report.
- Press Gazette’s The Wire does it’s own round-up.
- …then reports on Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson’s response to criticism on his blog.
- Paul Groves gives his reaction to the announcement on his blog.
- Rick Waghorn comments on the job losses.
- Roy Greenslade says he understands why the changes are happening, although he takes no pleasure in it.
- His blog seems to have inspired much of the content on the Editors Weblog.
- They have also blogged about the Post changes.
- Justin Williams, assitant editor of The Telegraph wonders if regional papers will outlive the NUJ after the announcements.
- The NUJ’s official response.
- The already infamous blog post from Nigel Hastilow.
- Birmingham Post’s political editor Jonathan Walker’s blogs about the changes.
- Jon Bounds offers a good local angle on The Post relaunch on Birmingham: It’s Not Shit.
- Peter Morgan gives his summary on Info:node.
- PR Bristol.
- World Association of Newspapers.
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7 Responses for "Big changes for The Birmingham Post - reaction round-up"
There are loads of questions.
But one of my immediate thoughts is why is there so much more information on other sites about these radical changes than on TM’s own titles - particularly the Post - in the Midlands?
Surely this would have been a good chance to make full use of the new website, blogs etc and put a positive spin on what is a major announcement, rather than have others do it for you?
(I know I need to be asking the editor these rather than firing them at you, but still waiting for his blog to appear).
I guess the answer is that other news organisations didn’t have to make the presentation this morning - it was our editors!
There is stuff that will be put up in the next few hours. Keep an eye on the Post News Blog, for example.
Thanks for round up, and all your Twitter updates. My old fashioned view is it’s a sad day when news of excellent journalists potentially losing their livelihoods isn’t deemed as important for ‘industry insider’ readers as what size a paper is going to be. Good luck to everyone, and I hope they can prosper wherever they end up.
Point taken. But it would still be possible to write in advance and time it to appear when everyone else there is being told.
@Paul Groves
I suppose the issue was that we were all told about this at the same time - the whole editorial floor in Birmingham, plus all the weekly editorial staff.
But yes, I see your point.
Hi Joana,
Thanks for the link!
We are wondering what this means for the future of regional journalism?
Profit before quality doesn’t make sense.
I would of thought that your title would of lead on the reasons for the action in order to lead the story, be hey we understand that this subject has its “politics” (understatement of the century.)
I guess the above story time line just goes to show how quickly news breaks with the bloggers…
Matt @ PRbristol
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