Big changes for The Birmingham Post – reaction round-up

We’re just come back from a big announcement about the future of Trinity Mirror Midlands, part of that was a major announcement about the future of The Birmingham Post.

I think I want some of the dust to settle before blogging my own thought (and don’t want to gazump my Editor!), but I thought I’d provide a bundle of links to other people talking about what is happening.

I will post my thoughts a bit later, so if you want to leave some questions in the comments, I’ll try and answer them. Suffice to say there are some very interesting times ahead.

– The Birmingham Post Editor, Marc Reeves, on the newspaper’s announced relaunch…
– …and he also blogs about it.
– Birmingham Post news story on the relaunch (we will update this during the day).
– There are a few interesting comments appearing on Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson’s blog.
– The Guardian’s report on the wider Trinity Mirror changes.
– …and documents the NUJ’s reaction to the announcements.
– The Guardian has now followed up with the story that we have all technically been made redundant.
– Brand Republic report.
– The Journalism.co.uk report on the Birmingham Post…
– …and it’s report on the wider Midland announcement…
– … and then on the change of roles for our editors.
– Holdthefrontpage.co.uk focuses on the new roles for our editors.
– … and the titles that are set to close…
– … and has now done a report on the job losses.
– Money invested and jobs lost lead in Press Gazette report on Trinity Mirror Midlands…
– … and a focus on the new tabloid sized Birmingham Post.
– The inaccurate corrected BBC report (it’s not The Post cutting 65 jobs, but TM Midlands) seems to miss many of the crucial details is here.
– The Express and Star report.
– Press Gazette’s The Wire does it’s own round-up.
– …then reports on Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson’s response to criticism on his blog.
– Paul Groves gives his reaction to the announcement on his blog.
– Rick Waghorn comments on the job losses.
– Roy Greenslade says he understands why the changes are happening, although he takes no pleasure in it.
– His blog seems to have inspired much of the content on the Editors Weblog.
– They have also blogged about the Post changes.
– Justin Williams, assitant editor of The Telegraph wonders if regional papers will outlive the NUJ after the announcements.
– The NUJ’s official response.
– The already infamous blog post from Nigel Hastilow.
– Birmingham Post’s political editor Jonathan Walker’s blogs about the changes.
– Jon Bounds offers a good local angle on The Post relaunch on Birmingham: It’s Not Shit.
– Peter Morgan gives his summary on Info:node.
– PR Bristol.
– World Association of Newspapers.

Any Qs: Sly Bailey

[Answers are here]

Ok, this one is a HUGE longshot and I probably shouldn’t be blogging about it. But… what the hell! I’m excited!

It appears that Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror will be in the Post & Mail house tomorrow (Monday)… and The Birmingham Post has requested an interview with her for the Media & Marketing page. That means I’ll be doing the interview! Cripes!

We’ve not had any confirmation yet on whether or not she’ll do it (I’m not even sure how long she’s going to be in the building). But, if this actually comes to pass, I think I’ll be asking her to outline her digital strategy for the Trinity Mirror Midlands division, now she’s decided not to sell it.

If you have got any others, let me know ASAP!!!