Evening turns to morning
Trinity Mirror newspaper the Coventry Evening Telegraph is to become a morning paper.
The Telegraph (53,962 circulation) used to be a morning paper but changed to an evening in the 50s.
Editor, Alan Kirby, said:
The Telegraph’s localness - its community news, its pictures of people and its interaction with readers - will continue to be its strength. People love us for our unique blend of local editorial and advertising and we must strive to build on that reputation.
The National Union of Journalists general secretary, Jeremy Dear has a different opinion:
Switching the Coventry Evening Telegraph to a morning paper would be a terrible, short-sighted mistake.
This is entirely the wrong direction to take and flies in the face of all logic and common sense - old news does not sell. The quality, and popularity, of this fine paper would be sure to suffer.
Once again Trinity Mirror is showing it doesn’t care about quality journalism, merely about making a quick buck. This act of vandalism betrays a shocking disregard for the future of its own publications.
Trinity Mirror publishes six other evening papers: the Birmingham Mail, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Teesside Evening Gazette (who I work for), Liverpool Echo, Newcastle Evening Chronicle and the South Wales Echo, which could follow the Coventry Telegraph and switch publication to the morning.
media.guardian.co.uk reports here.
And holdthefrontpage.co.uk reports here.
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