Evening Standard cuts media reporter position
By Alexandra Zeumer, Monday 12 May 2008 at 22:32 :: General :: #1648 :: rss
As part of a newsroom reorganization, the London Evening will be putting an end to the position of media correspondent, the Guardian reported Monday.
Amar Singh, the last to hold the position, started at the paper in 2005, and has been promoted to senior reporter as the media role was axed.
The Standard did not comment on the record as to why the position was cut, a senior source told the Guardian that Singh “would not be replaced.”
Abolishing the media correspondent position is part of a series of changes in the Standard newsroom, following the paper's “high profile coverage of the London mayoral elections which won the Evening Standard plaudits for its exclusive and comprehensive reporting,” the Evening Standard said in a statement, the Guardian reported.
Prior to Singh, Alexa Baracaia held the media correspondent position, and now works at the London Paper as associate editor.
The mayoral elections did not help increase the Standard’s circulation, as was hoped, despite the paper's endorsement of the winner, Boris Johnson. Sales were down by one percent from March, or almost 3,000 copies, to an average of 281,187 per day in April. Year-on-year, however, sales were up by 5.62 percent, which the Guardian credits to increased discounted bulk copy sales.
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