Growing up in Liverpool, I always enjoyed having two local daily papers. The Post was great for business and opinion whilst the Echo was its more famous brother; both influential and widely supported in and around the City.
Which is why it's even more depressing to hear TM are planning to turn the Echo into a morning paper:
http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-publishing/trinity-mirror-appears-set-to-switch-liverpool-echo-to-a-morning-paper%2c-nuj-protests-200906305752/
I recently spoke to a contact at the Nottingham Evening Post, which has also moved to a morning paper. He agreed that such a move erodes confidence in a paper and destroys its sense of identity.
Times may be tough but cost cutting has and always be in the interests of corporations and not in local democracy or quality journalism.
I despair for the future of our regional print media.
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