A report by Cardiff University says the Trinity are putting their Welsh titles at risk by investing in the web to the detriment of its news titles.
Interviews with journalists across the region have uncovered practices including staff being forced to do more work such as video and podcasts without extra pay and more importantly without adequate training.
The report says that journalists in Trinity's newsrooms are "very concerned about the changes in their working conditions but they do believe the digital newsroom represents the future of journalism".
They have five key areas of concern:
- Little investment in new resources
- increased workloads
- quality of multimedia news will be poor
- insufficient training
- No reward recognition in the form of pay
Th report goes on to say that Trinity faces a "stark choice as it moves online.It can continue to make cuts with an eye to maintaining short term profit margins and watch the quality of its news decline or it can invest in journalism with the aim of producing quality print and digital news products with a view to creating sustainable long term profits"
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