The regional newspaper industry is currently going through a state of turmoil with hundreds of journalists’ jobs lost over recent months.

As companies face up to the twin challenges of the recession and the continuing migration of advertising revenues to the internet, major restructuring has been taking place across most of the leading regional press publishing groups.

Managers say they have no option but to retrench if their newspapers are to survive in the longer-term, but many journalists say the lifeblood is being ripped out of their titles.

Here’s our at-a-glance guide showing how the jobs crisis spread across the industry over the second half of 2008, as covered on HoldtheFrontPage.

2008 – June

Northern Echo