The Northern Echo - changes update.

Last week I blogged about changes at the Northern Echo, including plans to cut back from five editions to one.

Yesterday the paper confirmed they were actually going to be printing two editions as from July 7, with a North and South version of the paper.

This will serve local readers better than I originally thought, but I don't buy Peter Barron's view that the paper's "local, regional and national content will be consolidated into two better, value for money editions with more pages."

We'll have to wait and see.

There's also confirmation that four editorial positions at the Echo will be lost, although no redundancies are planned. There's no news on production roles, although last week's report suggested a further 14 jobs might be at risk.

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