NUJ makes counter-offers to sub-editing centralisation
Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on January 30, 2009 at 3:53 PM
The UK National Union of Journalists has offered several counter-proposals to Johnston Press in hopes to sway the regional publisher from its plans to centralise sub-editing, Press Gazette reported Friday.
The proposals are aimed at keeping jobs closer to the towns those copy editors serve. Johnston Press earlier this month announced it will centralise sub-editing in its Midlands division.
The proposals are aimed at keeping jobs closer to the towns those copy editors serve. Johnston Press earlier this month announced it will centralise sub-editing in its Midlands division.
As part of the plan, sub-editing for Anglia Newspapers would be moved from Bury St. Edmunds to Peterborough, which is 71 miles away - a move the NUJ opposes. Instead, the NUJ has proposed centralising copy editing for the group in Bury St Edmunds. Johnston Press said it is considering the NUJ's proposals, according to Press Gazette.
Journalists in other jobs that be moved under the plan, including in Spalding in Lincolnshire and Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, will also submit counter-offers soon, according to the NUJ.
"If these papers are to survive and prosper they need to do be what they say on the packet - and that's local," Barry Fitzpatrick, the NUJ's head of publishing, told Press Gazette. "Even if there are jobs, it's quite unlikely that someone will travel all that way - it's not just remote, it's inconceivable. Secondly, these people have the local knowledge and local interest, and pick up anything that slips through and is wrong."
Journalists in other jobs that be moved under the plan, including in Spalding in Lincolnshire and Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, will also submit counter-offers soon, according to the NUJ.
"If these papers are to survive and prosper they need to do be what they say on the packet - and that's local," Barry Fitzpatrick, the NUJ's head of publishing, told Press Gazette. "Even if there are jobs, it's quite unlikely that someone will travel all that way - it's not just remote, it's inconceivable. Secondly, these people have the local knowledge and local interest, and pick up anything that slips through and is wrong."
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