Pacific Magazines to axe all but three of its 22 subbing roles
Pacific Magazines is to axe all but three of its 22 subbing roles and outsource most of its production to Pagemasters, the company has announced.
The company will outsource 19 sub-editor roles across its mastheads to Pagemasters. Just three sub-editing staff members will remain as part of a new content management team.
The cuts take to 30 the number of redundancies the Seven West Media owned PacMags has made in recent days following cuts to advertising and digital staff, along with the fashion picture desk.
Fairfax described outsourcing to Pagemasters as a “dumb idea” that they quickly abandoned. New Zealand Herald also outsourced to them then rapidly took back.
But I’m sure this will work out fine.
For heaven’s sake! This on a day when the Courier Mail has reported that heat on planes makes passengers “nauseas”!
And a few weeks after a national newspaper journalist told me the subs had “consulted spellcheck”! for the spelling of the past participle of a verb … that they – naturally – thus got wrong.
Sack the subs by all means – but get some replacements with rudimentary knowledge of grammar.