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Trinity Mirror cuts jobs and bids for the Express


newspapers. The move comes as it is also rationalising its print operations in north west England and the Midlands. The publisher will expand generic content across its titles with more standardisation, shared content and design. It will also use news pages supplied by the Press Association. At the Birmingham Mail up


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to 10 jobs are to go and the news and features operations are merging. As part of the plans Trinity


Mirror will also create up to 15 new roles across its regional operations and it plans to recruit new community content curators. And in a further move fears


have been raised for jobs on national titles after the publisher said it wanted to buy the Express group from


rinity Mirror is cutting up to 40 jobs in its regional daily and weekly


resulting in redundancies in Leicester, Coventry and Birmingham. Laura Davison, NUJ national organiser, said: “Jargon about a ‘more


Richard Desmond. The NUJ is concerned


about Trinity Mirror’s moves and has asked the company to provide assurances over journalists’ jobs. In the north west, Trinity


Mirror will end print production in Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales and move the work to two sites in Liverpool and Colwyn Bay. Eventually there will be just one site in Liverpool. In the East Midlands there will be a central printing facility,


synchronised approach’ and ‘aligning design structures’ can’t hide the fact that these are bad old fashioned job cuts affecting several Trinity Mirror centres around the country. More generic content across the titles and an increase in user generated content if it is at the expense of other coverage such as courts and councils, means short-changing local readers.” The NUJ has voiced


concerns about the implications of a takeover of the Daily Express and Daily Star in terms of media plurality and employment. It believes the best option is to maintain editorial independence of the titles.


“ ” WORLD SERVICE STAFF GET BIG PAY RISES M A


any staff at the BBC’s World Service are to receive significant pay


increases after years of the NUJ campaigning for pay parity for journalists in the World Service and Monitoring. The move follows the findings of the BBC’s pay review.


The findings of the


independent review, which looked at off-air journalist roles, comes on the back of a long-standing campaign by the NUJ and its sister unions about the disparity in pay between journalists in World Service and Monitoring and their colleagues in Network News. This secured a commitment from BBC director


general Tony Hall two years ago to deal with the issue. The review found that pay discrepancies existed in six of the 12 job categories, resulting in 732 of a total of 785 journalists receiving rises averaging eight per cent to bring them in line with Network News.


Young FT reporter killed in Sri Lanka Lionel Barber, FT editor,


24-year-old FT journalist and NUJ member died after being attacked by


a crocodile in Sri Lanka. Paul McClean, who had


worked for the FT for two years, had been on holiday with friends.


told the paper’s website: “Paul was a natural. He had charm, curiosity and an attention to detail – the essential ingredients for a top reporter.” Steve Bird, the FT’s NUJ


FoC, said: “Paul was an important part of our chapel and engaged with our recent campaign highlighting the need to do more for trainees. In his two years at the FT, Paul made a big impact and won a lot of friends.”


At the Birmingham Mail up to 10 jobs are to go and the news and features operations are merging


in brief...


‘SECURITY’ FOR BBC POLITICAL EDITOR Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC’s political editor, was reported to have been protected by security guards at the Labour party conference following online abuse. The corporation said it did “not comment on security issues”. But The Times carried a photo of her with a man it identified as a former soldier who is now a BBC security consultant.


FLANDERS RETURNS TO JOURNALISM Stephanie Flanders, the BBC’s former economics editor, has returned to journalism after nearly four years working as JP Morgan Asset Management’s chief market strategist. She is now leading a new economics unit at the financial news agency Bloomberg.


VOICE IS SILENCED ON NEW YORK’S STREETS The Village Voice, New York’s iconic alternative cultural magazine, has published its last printed edition. It bowed out with a classic shot of Bob Dylan from 1965 on the cover. The publication will now be online only after 62 years of being available on the streets. Writers including Norman Mailer, Henry Miller and Ezra Pound have written for the Voice.


WHICKERS WORLD AWARDS FUNDING The Whickers World awards for documentary making have opened. They offer funding for documentary projects and recognise the success of a completed documentary. It is the third round of the annual awards that mark the work of Alan Whicker. Applications for the awards close on 31st January 2018. https://whickersworldfoundation. com/awards


CRITIC O’LOUGHLIN SUCCEEDS AA GILL The Guardian’s restaurant critic Marina O’Loughlin is to succeed the late AA Gill as The Sunday Times’ restaurant critic. The paper’s editor Martin Ivens praised her unique style and sense of fun. O’Loughlin has written for The Guardian for five years and before that for Metro.


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