Journalism is at the heart of Fairfax Media’s plans for the future, CEO Greg Hywood proclaims, and he deserves credit for doing so.
Sub-editors
Video of the Day: Birnbauer on the importance of subeditors
Award-winning investigative journalist and editor from The Age — and now senior lecturer in journalism at Monash University — Bill Birnbauer discusses Fairfax’s decision to cut subeditors and how important subs are for both a journalist and an editor. Bill Birnbauer on Fairfax’s decision to outsource subeditorial roles from Matt Mitchell on Vimeo.
A good sub, close to your elbow, helps too shape braking gnus
All good and honest writers would admit it, unless they are too conceited to do so. A good sub is a very fine thing, and the closer they are to one’s elbow, the better.
Grammar nazis, get reading and clicking at WashPo
As of next week, every time a reader spots a factual error, typo or grammar mistake on a WashingtonPost article, they can immediately click on a feedback form to fill out and report it straight back to the paper. One way of dealing with dropping sub-editors numbers?
Sub-hub hubbub as staff braces for mind-numbing NewsCentral
Sydney-based News Limited staff are bracing for the worst following the botched implementation of the company’s controversial NewsCentral subbing arrangements.
NT News is tombstone territory for the dying art of subbing
The Northern Territory News is mourning the departure of 10 sub-editorial staff, following an internal restructure that will see the paper’s main subbing function shifted to the SA headquarters of the Adelaide Advertiser.
Probing the probers
The latest sexual assault allegations against Collingwood football players gave sub-editors Australia-wide a chance to bust out their favourite legal healdline term: probe. Mel Campbell examines the sub-editorial antics.
When Oz sub-editors know better
If The Australian wants to stop being dismissed as the propaganda wing of the Liberal Party then it needs to stop massaging things to fit the world view it wants to present to its readers, writes Dave Gaukroger.
Former sub-editors battle The Age for back pay
Past and present subs at The Age have launched legal action after learning that they have been underpaid for the last ten years. That’s a pretty major mistake.
Palin’s resignation: the edited version
Sarah Palin’s resignation speech was never going to be the Gettysburg Address, but it still lacked, er, polish. Just how bad was it? Vanity Fair let their sub-editing team loose on a transcript to find out.
Utegate: the story that writes its own headlines
Sub-editors across Australia are making sure they get as much mileage (heh) as possible out of the nation’s latest frenzied political scandal.
Michael Moore’s real CV: Bowling for Concubine, Dicko and more
A sub-editing slip-up in The Age inspired Cinetology to imagine Michael Moore’s films in a parallel universe.
newspaper death watch News Limited’s future: leaner, meaner and tighter
The true extent of the job losses at News Limited is becoming clearer with details emerging from Queensland which reveal how each of the states will centralise their operations to cut costs.
