As hundreds of revved-up Fairfax staff move en-masse to rallying points in Sydney and Melbourne in their fight over CEO Greg Hywood’s planned sacking of 300 comrades, the anecdotes have have been flowing thick and fast.
Subeditors
No mercy: Fairfax errs in sticking with sub sack plan
Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood ignores union pleas to backflip on outsourcing subeditors, forging ahead with the controversial proposal and sending morale inside his newsrooms plummeting.
MEAA: risk-taking Fairfax needs a plan that works
Fairfax Media’s cost-cutting strategy is a risky business, writes Christopher Warren, of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance.
Simons: Fairfax and its 48 hours of WTF moments
This was meant to be Fairfax’s big, though awful moment. The time when it showed the market that it knew what it was doing and there was a vision. But the vision thing is being dimmed.
Angry hacks demand Fairfax look elsewhere for savings
Torrents of anger continue to course through Fairfax newsrooms in Melbourne and Sydney after chief executive Greg Hywood told staff he would trigger forced redundancies if subeditors in the firing line refused to sack themselves.
Sub standards: Pagemasters to change the way we read
Pagemasters is now a major employer in its own right, and it’s going to get bigger.
Why you should never piss-off a sub-editor
Newspaper The Toronto Star recently announced it would be outsourcing some of its sub-editing work. So the paper’s disgruntled subbies have taken a red pen to the publisher’s internal memo announcing the move, proving exactly why they’re needed.
Interest rate horse puns: their cups runneth over
The priceless coincidence of two major news events occurring within an hour of each other yesterday had the nation’s top journalists jockeying relentlessly in their favourite pursuit: tenuously-linked punnage.
Guardian apologises to its subbies: OK, you’re journalists, too
The Guardian has retracted the line “journalists and subeditors are not expected to be multilingual” in a recent article, after it presumably caused offense to the paper’s subs. “Subeditors are journalists” said the paper after changing the line to “reporters and subeditors”.
Political snippets: No government this morning
With all the media focus on the Opposition at the moment, the government are staying very very quiet. Plus, the sneaking humorous world of sub editors.
Subeditors: the real victims of the NSW dust storm
Pity the poor News.com.au subbie who had to come up with captions for 68 photos of suburbs glowing red, says Jeremy Sear.
