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After the news has gone: life without your local newspaper

Saturday, August 14, 2010

What happens when your local newspaper leaves town? The people of Ashton-Under-Lyne in Greater Manchester found out 18 months ago when the Tameside Advertiser office (right) shut and its journalists were either sacked or moved seven miles west to Manchester city centre, home of the paper’s parent company MEN Media, now part of Trinity Mirror’s [...]

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Manchester, so much to answer for: why you wouldn’t launch a regional magazine

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Regional newspapers are either in – or just exiting – an economic crisis. The rules have changed, the ad revenue is disappearing to free online alternatives, news habits have changed and the audience is getting older. It shouldn’t be this hard, in theory: if the current thinking among intelligent journalists is that you need a [...]

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