UK: Telegraph considering further outsourcing

Posted by Katherine Thompson on December 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM

The Guardian report today that the Daily Telegraph are thinking about outsourcing some production operations. These production operations include some of the subbing work performed by the supplements department.

This consideration follows the TMG head of production, Richard Oliver, visiting an outsourcing centre in Brisbane, Australia.

Management informed staff on Friday that it was seeking approximately 50 redundancies across editorial. As part of the cuts, three or four news subs were made redundant yesterday according to the Guardian.

"TMG must cut costs as a consequence of the continuing and accelerating fall in advertising revenue and soaring newsprint prices," the TMG executive editorial director, Richard Ellis, told staff last week.

"With less advertising, there will be fewer pages to produce, so the main bulk of the job reductions will be in the areas of production, magazines, and pictures, though few areas will be unaffected," said TMG executive editorial director, Richard Ellis, last week.

Source: The Guardian