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Bloodbath continues for online news sites

There was more bad news for British web publishing this month with market leader Trinity Mirror expecting to shed a third of its digital workforce and telegraph.co.uk cutting 17 jobs from its web site.

Trinity Mirror has not yet announced the total number of redundancies, but plans to hand back control of its 13 regional web sites to its sister print publications. It is expected that the sites will retain only a skeleton staff for updating, taking content from the print papers and providing technical support.

A company spokesman said it was concentrating on its core newspaper business again because of the reduced need for wider digital services.

Meanwhile at telegraph.co.uk, no-one was available for comment. The web site did not mention the redundancies but continued to trumpet its digital achievements:

"The Telegraph was the first British newspaper to recognise the significance of the internet, and when electronic telegraph went online in November 1994, it effectively launched the digital era for the British news media," it says.

"A new technical platform has been developed enabling us to deliver a vast range of personalised and dynamic services... Throughout the past seven years the development of our internet sites has been led by comments and feedback from users. We look forward to continuing that process with telegraph.co.uk."

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