Standard, Herald & Times Outsourcing Page Lay-Up To PA
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Pages of the London Evening Standard will be produced 191 miles away in East Yorkshire, after Press Association won a contract for the job, along with one to lay up pages for Scotland’s Herald & Times Group.
The Standard has cut its midday edition, resulting in what was earlier reported to be 20 lost editorial and production jobs. Unclear if outsourcing its production to the PA in Howden means further job losses. Updated: No further job losses will result, Standard’s PR tells paidContent:UK.
Obviously, this couldn’t have happened in the old days before we could send text and page layouts over the wires.
PA, which at core produces a news and video wire for papers, already produces some 9,000 pages each week for 220 newspapers and mags. It says the Standard deal is for “commercially-led editorial pages and supplements, including recruitment and entertainment”.
PA already subedits Herald & Times Group’s business pages and provides its Evening Times national and international news. The new deal is an extension under which it will also sub its news and features.
It’s a win for newspaper proprietors who still seem intent on cutting staff costs, even after the layoffs bloodletting of 2009, and a win for the PA, which is intently searching for new income streams - but a loss for the staff whose jobs are being outsourced to a different part of the country.
@robertandrews
Jan 5, 2010 6:26 AM ET
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