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This profile covers the UK Trinity Mirror group, which
embraces UK regional papers and publications salvaged
from the wreck of the Maxwell empire.
the group
Trinity
Mirror claims to be the largest newspaper publisher
in the UK and the second largest in Europe, with more
than 14,000 staff and operations in Ireland and the UK.
Its portfolio embraces a handful of national newspapers,
over 240 regional newspapers, around 50 magazines, national
exhibitions and events.
The group claims that around half the UK population reads
one of its titles (which range - perhaps not very far
- from the Daily Mirror to Quids In and
the West Bridgford Wot's Wot). As of 2001 it included
three of the top 10 regional evening newspapers and three
of the top six regional Sunday newspapers.
The group dates from the 1999 merger of Trinity (local/regional
newspapers) and the Mirror group - centred around the
tabloid Mirror - which had formed the heart of
the former Maxwell group (described
in a separate profile).
In December 2003 it announced the sale of its Irish regional
newspapers (seven titles, including the Belfast News
Letter - sometimes claimed as the world's oldest continuously-published
English language newspaper - Donegal Democrat
and Derry Journal) to venture capital group 3i
for £46.3 million.
The Racing Post was launched in 1986 by racehorse
owner Sheikh Mohamed Maktoum as a rival to the Mirror
Group's Sporting Life. The He licensed publication
of the title in 1997; Mirror Group folded the Sporting
Life in 1999, leaving the Post in a lucrative
position as the dominant UK provider of daily horseracing
coverage.
In December 2006 Trinity Mirror announced plans to sell
its sports division (including the Racing Post,
valued at around £200m) and regional titles in the
Midlands, London and the south-east. It would retain the
Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People
and "key regional titles" in Scotland, the north
of England and Wales.
In July 2007 it sold East Surrey & Sussex Newspapers,
Kent Regional Newspapers and Blackmore Vale Publishing
to Northcliffe Media (DMGT) for
£65m.
studies
There has been no major academic study of Trinity Mirror,
in contrast to writing about the Mirror and associated
personalities.
For the Mirror see Charles Wintour's The Rise
& Fall of Fleet Street (London: Hutchinson 1989),
Northcliffe's Legacy: Aspects of the British Popular
Press 1896-1996 (New York: St Martins 2000) edited
by Peter Catterall & Colin Seymour-Ure, The Mirror:
A Political History (London: Hamilton 1966) by Maurice
Edelman and The Market For Glory (London: Faber
1986) by Simon Jenkins.
Ruth Dudley Edwards' Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil
Harmsworth King & the Glory Days of Fleet Street
(London: Secker & Warburg 2003) is an essential point
of entry for memoirs such as Hugh Cudlipp's Walking
in The Water (1976) and Cecil King's Strictly Personal
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969).
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