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Brum Post might go weekly to plug £6m loss – Press Gazette

The Birmingham Post – weekly or slimmed down daily " nothing has been decided.". The notice period of consultations on redundancy have started – around 60 jobs are rumoured to be being lost across local titles.

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Business before pleasure? The Post relaunches

The journalism blogosphere (a place where the word dinosaur is used more than any palaeontology convention) is awash with news of the Birmingham Post’s (and it’s owner Trinity Mirror’s) relaunch plans. In short (apart from changes in the production process, which aren’t unique to any newspaper these days — more cross platform working, job losses unfortunately) there were three big threads: going tabloid (in size rather than attitude) dropping the Saturday edition “focusing on business news” While I might say I would prefer the Post to go Berliner in size (a la the Guardian) that would require a big investment, whereas the tabloid size is well established. Papers and magazines have been reducing in size for a few years, without any noticeable drop in quality, so I’m sure that will pan out okay. Not publishing on Saturdays is really en extension of the decision to focus in on business readers. If the sales (2,000 lower of a Sat – 20% lower according to the Press Gazette) on Saturdays don’t produce enough profit as it is then a business focused paper on a weekend would struggle more. Both of these things are related to people consuming news online a lot...

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Timbuktu News

Ages ago (I was reminded when I was swapping the site about) we made a preposterous attempt to get Birmingham twinned with Timbuktu. Turns out we needent have bothered according to Birmingham News editor Ross Crawford: “The difficulty in covering a city the size of Birmingham, is that many of the suburbs have little in common. If you live in Acocks Green, for instance, Great Barr is as remote as Timbuktu.” Having lived in both Acock’s Green and Great Barr, I wish I could have had that quote to excuse why I never got round to visiting my mum – but what he’s on about is the weekly free paper being rebranded this week as seven local newspapers. A total of 25 people, who will be paid lineage rates, will file copy and pictures from their own communities – although they’re still calling them “citizen correspondents”. Sounds like a plan, and I’m sure there are some great “citizens” out there. It sounds even more like a structure for a network of blogs, but the icbirmingham site isn’t up to that at all. Are any of our local bloggers involved? If not they maybe they’ve missed a trick. Via

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