By Julia Armstrong, MoC Sheffield Star

Journalists working on three of the biggest regional newspaper groups in Britain were called to an emergency union meeting to discuss the fightback against major attacks on jobs and pay.

National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear said that Jon Slattery, who covered the industry for 23 years at Press Gazette, said in his blog that the news of title closures and job losses announced meant that last week must rank as one of the bleakest for the British press.

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