Journalists from Media Wales, the Trinity Mirror owned stable of titles that include the Western Mail, the South Wales Echo and Wales on Sunday have voted in favour of strike action after Trinity Mirror announced plans to lay off 13 journalists.
We hear that 96% of those balloted were in favour of strike action.
Father of the chapel Martin Shipton said: “The ballot result gives the union a clear mandate to organise industrial action.”
Trinity Mirror group have recently closed down the Neath and Port Talbot Guardians.
Alan Edmunds, the publishing director of Media Wales is repeatedly reported as saying “our readers continue to be served in the Western Mail and on its website – Wales Online.”
We at Welsh Icons are very concerned about these developments. It was only this week that the true nature of broadband availability in Wales became clear. And, from what we have seen so far, there is a massive ‘digital divide’ between those with Internet access and those without.
In fact, we are so worried about media coverage in Wales, that here at Welsh Icons, a body that carries both National and hyper-local news, we have been undertaking a study into producing paper or what some people now refer to as ‘dead-tree’ copies of this site, where our subscribers can choose the subjects they are interested in and have them printed on demand on a regular basis.
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