{"id":90894,"date":"2018-04-11T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ea3dee7e1d58248c3f7b13b54fcebc93"},"modified":"2018-04-11T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T06:00:01","slug":"news-story-cma-launches-trinity-mirrorexpress-merger-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90894","title":{"rendered":"News story: CMA launches Trinity Mirror\/Express merger investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Trinity Mirror plc took over part of Northern &amp; Shell Media Group Limited, including the Express and Star newspapers, in February 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) will now assess whether this deal could significantly reduce competition within the UK media sector, in line with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/mergers-guidance-on-the-cmas-jurisdiction-and-procedure\">merger guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for the initial decision is 7 June 2018. Further details, including how interested parties can submit evidence, are available on the investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/trinity-mirror-northern-shell-media-group-merger-ingury\">case page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has launched an initial investigation into the completed Trinity Mirror\/Express merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}