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"Trinity Mirror regional titles, Newcastle’s Journal, the Birmingham Post and the Liverpool Post have joined forces to report on the economic situation on this live blog, happening right now, as we type this post."
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"This week saw the launch of a hyperlocal news map for the Liverpool Echo, as announced by Sly Bailey at the AOP Digital Publishing Summit. It geotags news content so each user can search for news by postcode."
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"Plans by the BBC to invest £68m on a network of local websites hosting on-demand video news have been lambasted for being 'unfair', 'anti-competitive' and 'a waste of public money' by Trinity Mirror chief Sly Bailey today."
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"Trinity Mirror has launched a map-based news service on the Liverpool Echo website and plans to expand it across its other regional sites. The site will geo-tag news stories so users can search for news stories via postcode."
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"Publishers must put digital media 'at the centre' of their businesses to survive the current economic downturn, Sly Bailey, Trinity Mirror CEO, told an industry conference today."
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"For those looking to how online advertising is likely to weather the global financial meltdown, forecasters still seem relatively hopeful—at least compared to traditional advertising… However, given the daily drumbeat of dire economic news, the meaning of optimism is being revised downward as well."
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"Online ad spending in the UK gained 21 percent in the first six months of this year, reaching £1.68 billion ($2.95 billion) as the while the country’s total ad market slipped 0.7 percent year-over-year"