Trinity Mirror

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Trinity Mirror plc is a large United Kingdom newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People, Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Its headquarters are at Canary Wharf in London and as of October 2005 it employs around 11,000 people. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Trinity Mirror was formed in September 1999 by the merger of Trinity plc and Mirror Group plc. As a condition of the merger Trinity Mirror was forced to sell the Belfast Telegraph group, a holding of the Mirror Group.

The group has followed a programme of cost cutting in recent years at its newspapers in a bid to boost its share price*[1]. This has reduced the number of journalists employed. In October 2005 it hit the news for "cancelling Christmas" as its latest cost cutting measure.*[2]

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Trinity Mirror claims that over the course of one week around 20 million people read at least one Trinity Mirror newspaper - 42 per cent of the adult UK population. Titles it owns, some via its subsidiary 'Mirror Group Newspapers' include:

It used to own a 43% share of The Independent.

It owned the News Letter, Donegal Democrat and Derry Journal until late 2003 when they were sold to the newly formed Local Press Ltd.


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Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough)

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