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Newsquest Cutting Print Staff, Adding ‘Multimedia Journalists’

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More newsroom integration cuts. The UK’s number-two regional news publisher Newsquest is restructuring its editorial department, which could see six staff laid off and 12 edit positions disposed of, reports the Guardian. The redundancies will hit paid-for and free weekly newspapers including the Epping Forest Guardian, Hendon & Finchley Times and the Enfield Independent. The plan is to get rid of subediting jobs, and replacing them with “multimedia journalists” who will not only write the copy, but sub it and load it into a content management system. The NUJ attacked the plan, calling it a “a savage cut to the already overworked, stressed and underpaid journalists that work for these titles.”

Oct 7, 2008 4:47 AM ET

Posted In: Jobs & Layoffs, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, layoffs, newsquest

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