Publisher outsources production jobs
Will this be the future for all production staff?
From the National Business Review:
APN News, one of New Zealand’s biggest newspaper publishers is outsourcing up to 70 jobs at its nine newspapers.
New Zealand Herald, the Wanganui Chronicle, the Hawke’s Bay Today and the Bay of Plenty Times will all be affected by the layoffs.
The work done by sub-editors and staff in charge of layout are to be outsourced to Australian company Pagemasters which will carry out the work from Auckland.
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union describes the outsourcing move as an attack on journalism, and on the communities served by the newspapers affected.
Read more here.
Independent News and Media are also doing something similar. Go here.
Roy Greenslade from The Guardian has it on his blog too, where there is more discussion on it.
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March 24th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
[...] Publisher outsources production jobs. There’s always been regional consolidation of production tasks among small newspapers, but this, in New Zealand, seems to be a magnitude or two greater than that. [...]