Nine reverses Fairfax outsourcing to bring sub-editors back inhouse
The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and Australian Financial Review newsrooms are to see a boost in staff following Nine’s announcement that the mastheads will bring sub-editing functions back in-house.
24 positions are to be created after Nine revealed it was discontinuing its 2016 sub-editing agreement that saw 70 Fairfax jobs outsourced to Pagemasters, saying the move “will better enable the three mastheads to raise the quality of their journalism for readers and subscribers.”
Executive editor of the SMH and The Age, James Chessell, said: “This is great news that reflects the importance of The Age and The Herald’s journalism”
Twenty-four subs will be working their arses off.
Twenty-four subs will be working their arses off.
Excellent….presumably a return to less linguistic blunders.
Cheers
It’s ‘fewer linguistic blunders’
Presumably you meant to say “fewer”? (The pedants are revolting, Sire!”
As for linguistic blunders, ‘fewer’, not ‘less’, a blunder that is very irritating. We have so many nuances of meaning is our wonderful language; please let’s use them.
Why is this being played up so much? In reality it will simply mean some people at AAP lose jobs and some others – on lower pay – go to work at Nine.
I think you’ll find that AAP stopped providing subbing services several years ago, with sub editing being outsourced to New Zealand. So in fact, this will be a return of jobs to Australian shores, where they should have been kept in the first place.
This is great news. However, it’s concerning that 70 jobs were outsourced but only 24 are being brought back in-house.
Presumably you meant to say “fewer”? (The pedants are revolting, Sire!”
When do they start advertising for these positions?