UK: confusing job cuts at the Telegraph

Posted by John Burke on September 28, 2006 at 12:17 PM

Along with the radical change of its newsroom, at the beginning of the month the Telegraph announced that job cuts were imminent. In the end 54 newsroom employees lost their job which was met by resistance from unions.

"They are tearing the heart out of this paper and each day that goes by they are doing it more and more," said John Carey of the National Union of Journalists, estimating that the quality of the paper's content would suffer greatly.

Some of the paper's well known columnists, including a Paris correspondent praised for his adoption of new media, are being cut, a decision deemed strange because of the Telegraph abrupt adoption of new media.

In related news, the Financial Times is inviting several of its subeditorial staff it had laid off back to work.

Source: The Guardian (Telegraph, FT)

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