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Main feature 14 Fruitful pickings for browsers Searching for information on the web
the group’s closure of the New Day newspaper just nine weeks after it launched and its decision
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to turn the Nuneaton News from a daily to a weekly. However, it’s not all bad news at Trinity Mirror. After the union’s intervention a specialist publication threatened with transfer – the Black Country Bugle - was retained at its original office. Persistent job cuts focus the mind on the constant search to find new models to make journalism pay. David Crouch looks at some European websites that are charging for good, in-depth journalism and are finding that there are people willing to pay for it.
Meanwhile there is no shortage of people wanting to get
into journalism or trying to make it work for them despite its uncertainty. Our Starting Out contributor Alex Bee writes about trying to get that start in the profession after finishing university. Our Viewpoint writer Nick Inman discusses the merits and drawbacks of working for free. And in his own inimitable way Chris Proctor speculates that soon journalism jobs could be so scarce they could go to the highest bidder. I hope you find something of interest in this edition.
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he prospect of job cuts is almost a daily hazard for many journalists. In this edition we report on the latest round of ‘restructuring’ at Trinity Mirror and on the NUJ’s challenges to
News 03 Jobs axe again at Trinity Mirror Regional centres face new redundancies
04 Overworked and underpaid Report on journalists’ working conditions
05 BBC keeps licence fee but loses Trust Changes to way broadcaster is run
06 Action from Welsh Assembly sought NUJ wants media committee in Cardiff
07 Camapign week for local news Action underlines importance of press
Features
10 Let’s go to Cambridge High tech in a peaceful setting
12 Safe and sound? Free speech in universities
18 You only get what you pay for Charging for good journalism online
Regulars 09 Viewpoint 17 NUJ and me 26 And finally
Arts withArts with Attitude
ttitude Pages 22-23
Raymond Snoddy Page 21
s 22-23 Letters &
Steve Bell 24-25
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