Comments on: Trinity Mirror goes back to newspapers

By: Duncan Higgitt

Duncan Higgitt — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:36:11 +0000

Pleasure, Ed. We all tend to have a pessimistic view of TM’s dealings, which you can probably discern in the piece. I like what you and Wilco have done in such a short time.

If you fancy a beer some time, give me a shout.

Up the Junction – very funny. Keep contributing, please.

Best, Duncan.

By: Ed Walker

Ed Walker — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:13:34 +0000

Thanks for the mention of yourCardiff, Duncan.

We’re hoping with yourCardiff to build an online community site for Cardiff, that people who work in, live in or visit Cardiff can connect with. Will be a fun journey as we develop it further!

Certainly interesting news to see my employer taking on the Manchester Evening News. There’s an interesting post by Nigel Barlow (he’s based in Manchester) about it: http://thoughtsofnigel.blogspot.com/2010/02/manchester-evening-news-good-business.html

He points out that it could well be a positive thing, the move out to Oldham may make the MEN take notice of the growing suburban sprawl around Manchester and reflect that more in the paper?

Who knows, but it will certainly be interesting to see how things develop in Manchester. Plus on a sports note, you’ve now got TM scoring Liverpool/Everton/Manchester United/Bolton/Manchester City in close proximity – could be some really exciting sports/multimedia stuff happening in the future.

By: Up the Junction

Up the Junction — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:20:03 +0000

I had the misfortune to work for Trinity a few years ago.

There I experienced at first hand the very worst excesses of free market madness. Every day was like a cross between an episode of “The Office” and a Dickens novel.

I still wake up in a cold sweats as a result of nightmares where I am being “total-quality-management” bullshitted by some idiot from Trinty HQ in Chester

The fact that their MD’s name is “Sly” says it all.