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Low sales force closure of New Day after just 9 weeks
BRITAIN’S youngest newspaper The New Day closes its doors today after just nine weeks’ operation amid journalists’ and readers’ sadness and anger.
Most of the 25 members of staff are expected to lose their jobs after being hired on temporary contracts, while the rest are to be taken by the Daily Mirror, with which The New Day shares its parent company Trinity Mirror.
New Day editor Alison Phillips told her team the company had “tried everything” but was selling each day only around 40,000 of the targeted 200,000 copies.
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