Disquiet on the Western Front ; PRESS BRISTOL POST Bristol's Two Dailies Are Being Sweetened for Sale Via Fierce Job Cuts, While Local News Has Al but Vanished from the Broadcast Media. A Great Tradition of Campaigning Community Journalism Is Threatened, Says Christina Zaba

Zaba, Christina, The Independent (London, England)

It's all quiet at the Printer's Devil pub in Bristol these days, where Evening Post journalists used to meet. The grand ballroom is dark and silent at the former Western Daily Press social club. For Bristol journalists, there's nowhere much to go these days.

As a once-great media centre comes to terms with, in effect, the merger of its two distinct and much-loved daily newspapers - one for the city, the other for the country - and the loss of almost half their staff, it's not just tradition that's being demolished. A journalism committed to serving readers and local democracy seems to be being dismantled. Northcliffe Newspapers, own-ersof the Bristol Evening Postand …

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Publication information: Article title: Disquiet on the Western Front ; PRESS BRISTOL POST Bristol's Two Dailies Are Being Sweetened for Sale Via Fierce Job Cuts, While Local News Has Al but Vanished from the Broadcast Media. A Great Tradition of Campaigning Community Journalism Is Threatened, Says Christina Zaba. Contributors: Zaba, Christina - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: January 23, 2006. Page number: 9. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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