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Shaping the Future of the Newspaper

Date

Sat - 25.05.2013


Alan Rusbridger

One hundred jobs will be cut at The Guardian and The Observer after their publisher, Guardian Media & News (GNM), reported operating losses of £44.2 million for the financial year 2011/2012. Addressing staff at a briefing on Tuesday morning, Alan Rusbridger, the Editor-in-Chief of the two titles, announced that GNM would be introducing a voluntary redundancy scheme (an agreement with the National Union of Journalists means that at the Guardian titles the forced redundancy of a member would necessitate a strike ballot)

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Amy Hadfield

Date

2012-07-18 18:33

A long-form piece for the weekend: Tim de Lisle of Intelligent Life follows the "triumphs and tribulations" of the Guardian, and talks to its piano-playing Editor-in-Chief, Alan Rusbridger, in an attempt to answer its provocative headline: Can the Guardian Survive?

“Yesterday’s News Corp split announcement could spell big changes at The Times as Rupert Murdoch vowed losses would not be tolerated at any of the company’s print titles,” begins an article by Andrew Pugh on PressGazette. Murdoch reportedly said yesterday that he plans to be more "bullish" in the US than in the UK, and that “each newspaper will be expected to pay its way.”

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Emma Knight

Date

2012-06-29 16:12

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