Summary
How local is your local newspaper? If a trend being established in some publishing companies continues, the answer might be less so than you think.
Scottish & Universal Newspapers, part of the Trinity Mirror group, has just made two local paper editors redundant and transferred the editing function to two regional editors who oversee a group of local papers. This means that Graham Crawford, who was editor of the Dumbartonbased Lennox Herald, is leaving the company. And Adrian Barnfather who edited the Dumfries & Galloway Standard for 12 years, is currently in talks with S&UN about the possibility of another post within the company.See the full content of this document
Extract
Local Papers Keep Costs Down . . . By Getting Rid of Their Editorswith Regional Newspaper Editors Being Replaced by Group Managers, How Will Readers React? Reports
Neither journalist applied for their respective regional editor posts, jobs that were advertised. The Lennox Herald will now be edited by the new S&UN regional editor west Alan Woodison, ...
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