Several editorial staff at Trinity Mirror’s Birmingham-based titles have been given extra responsibilities in a series of internal promotions. At the Evening Mail, long-serving photographer Steve Murphy has been appointed picture editor, while Gary Denning becomes the paper’s chief sub-editor,
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Culture beat goes on as rivals lick their wounds
While the Daily Post and Liverpool Echo were celebrating their city’s Capital of Culture victory last week, their rivals in print on the other side of the country were preparing a page of Scouser jokes… to take away the pain
Promotion for Mary-Ann
Mary-Ann Bloomfield has been appointed editor of the Mid Devon Gazette series – a promotion that rewards her hard work at the paper in the past five years – and paves the way for future developments. Managing editor Andy Cooper
Former Post editor joins tourism media group
Former regional newspaper editor Nigel Hastilow has been appointed editorial director of the tourism, leisure and lifestyle publishing company Heart Media Group Ltd. The journalist, formerly editor of the Birmingham Post, will be working alongside sales director John Keane, also
20 redundancies for Post & Mail and Sunday Mercury
Twenty redundancies are being sought across the newsrooms of the Birmingham Post & Mail, the Sunday Mercury and the company’s free weekly, the Birmingham News. The blow comes at the end of a project run across the whole of Trinity
Dan leaves the Post
Dan Mason, publisher of the Birmingham Post, has left the company with immediate effect. He had been publisher of the Trinity Mirror title for the past three years, and will now pursue other interests. Birmingham Post & Mail managing director
'200' join walkout over pensions
A one-day strike in protest at Trinity Mirror closing the final salary pension scheme to new starters brought up to 150 National Union of Journalists members onto the picket line in Birmingham, and another 50 in Coventry. Staff at the
Pickets return as strike action resumes
Two lots of strike action by journalists over their pay look set to resume in the next few days. National union of Journalists members at the Bradford Telegraph & Argus and its associated newspapers, owned by Newsquest, are due to
News in brief
The Birmingham Post has launched a campaign to block a legal loophole that does not require coach passengers to wear seatbelts.The decision to launch the campaign has come shortly after the 20th anniversary of mandatory seatbelt wearing for front seat
Editor answers Aston media critics
Editor Dan Mason is answering his critics in a troubled part of Birmingham by sending his journalists out into the community. He is setting up a temporary district office of the Birmingham Post in Aston. A team of reporters will
New chief executive named at Trinity Mirror
Sly Bailey is become the new chief executive of Trinity Mirror. Currently chief executive of IPC Media Ltd, Sly, (40), will take over from Philip Graf on February 3. She said: “The chief executive role at Trinity Mirror is one
Investment will bring job losses
A new press centre planned for the Birmingham Post and Mail and Coventry Evening Telegraph will prompt the loss of more than 90 jobs. Around £60m is being invested in a new press hall at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham to
Graf steps down at Trinity Mirror
Philip Graf, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, has announced his resignation. He will step down next summer, allowing time for the group to appoint his successor. Philip was appointed chief executive of the group in September 1999 following the merger
Post is hooked on classics
The Birmingham Post is collaborating in a major initiative with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to bring classical music to a wider audience. Every copy of The Birmingham Post on Saturday contained a CD recorded by the orchestra to
Death of a giant in journalism
Keith Whetstone, former editor-in-chief of the Birmingham Post and Mail, and editor of the Coventry Evening Telegraph and Cambridge Evening News has died, aged 72. He had been ill with prostate cancer. The three newspapers were owned at the time
Trinity papers press ahead
The Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough has been given planning permission to extend its Borough Road premises to allow a new printing press to be installed. The new press will significantly increase colour capacity and could be operational by as early