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LONDON: Newspaper group Trinity Mirror has announced a job cutting programme and said it will extend up to March next year and will immediately affect staff in the North East and Cardiff. There could be 60 positions across all the departments that would go, the paper told its staff.
The company has not revealed its total redundancies but the figure seems to be in the range of 550 and 770 jobs -- between 5 per cent and 7 per cent of the total workforce of approximately 11,000.
The company's newspaper staff in Cardiff, Newcastle and Middlesborough were told of the job cuts and they were offered a chance to take voluntary redundancy. A similar announcement is expected in Liverpool.
The newspapers that would be affected include the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and the South Wales Echo.
The company undertook the review after a reported slump in advertising revenues in the first-half results, reported in July. While its five national papers saw ad revenues slump by 5.4 per cent from 99 million pounds to 93.7 million pounds,the regional division saw the revenues grow 1.5 per cent to 214.1 million pounds.
Meanwhile, the company has convened a meeting with National Union of Journalists (NUJ) executives in Scotland to brief them on job cuts planned for the Scottish titles. Management representatives from the Scottish office are expected to meet NUJ's national organiser in Scotland, Paul Holleran, Monday reportedly to discuss on the jobcuts planned in the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.
A Trinity Mirror spokesperson said each of the company's businesses have conducted a review of cost bases. Those reviews are now being completed and the businesses are entering periods of consultation with those employees affected.
The company has so far said 11 editorial posts are to go in Cardiff, six in Liverpool, two in Huddersfield and one in North Wales.
The NUJ has called an emergency meeting of its Trinity Mirror representatives following the announcement of job cuts in the group.
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on : Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:40 GMT | General News
By : Pippa Fielding
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