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Article: Media: Hollick's express route to profit The two years since Lord Hollick merged the Express titles have been bloody: it has 150 fewer journalists, a declining readership and has changed both editor and political allegiance to stem the rot. Does Hollick care? Or is he only interested in the bottom line? By Darius Sanai
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- The Independent (London, England)
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- September 22, 1998
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Two years ago Clive Hollick, New Labour peer and nouveau media
baron, embarked on a radical project, merging his recently acquired
daily and Sunday Express titles, sacking dozens of journalists and
executives, creating Britain's first seven-day tabloid newspaper
operation. He brought on his company the contempt of the media
world, which protested that the experiment, tried (unsuccessfully)
before by two broadsheets, would never work.
Now, after 24 turbulent months punctuated by mass dismissals,
veers in political and editorial direction and numerous revamps, all
accompanied by a haemorrhage of readers which was stemmed only last
month, it is time the jury was called back in on Lord ...