Birmingham Post & Mail shake-up
From Marc Reeves on the Birmingham Post editor’s blog:
In three weeks’ time, the last daily edition of the printed version of the Birmingham Post will roll off our presses in Erdington, marking the end of a publishing tradition that stretches back more than 150 years
Roy Greenslade rounds up the changes:
The Birmingham Post, as forecast in the summer, is to go weekly; the Birmingham Mail will become an overnight, morning title; both editors are leaving; and there will be about 80 redundancies across the group
There are plans to put the titles on a more even keel, but this isn’t good news and sympathies go to those who’ll be affected.
While we’re on the subject of the Post, they had the most fantastic front-page story this morning:
Birmingham council’s £100,000 communications chief Debra Davis attacks own department
Bearing in mind that Ms Davis has been running the department for the past two-and-a-half years, there are many questions that spring to mind – many of them articulated by ‘DiliGent’ in the piece’s 4th comment. Worth a read.
