Media News - Thursday, August 27, 2009
Freebie Metro planning up to 30 lifestyle layoffs
After News International’s decision to shut its freesheet thelondonpaper, now Associated Newspapers’ national freesheet rival Metro is planning to make up to 30 redundancies on its regional arts and entertainment sections. Sources close to the paper say it is cutting back drastically on its Metro Life sections - the regionalised arts, entertainment and food pages produced by journalists at Metro’s offices in Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Birmingham and Bristol. We understand that all regional staff have been called to compulsory meetings in London, Manchester and Glasgow on Thursday afternoon to discuss their fate and formally begin a consultation process. A spokeswoman for parent company DMGT declined to comment. Metro Life coverage is published in the centre of the paper. Staff and resources on the sections have been steadily trimmed back for many months with freelance budgets have been cut and a number of staff have taken voluntary redundancy. Metro distributed a daily average of 1.33 million copies in July, making it the UK’s fourth most-read daily paper narrowly behind the Daily Mirror—so reach isn’t a problem, nor is the public’s appetite for free, snappy, how-about-that style news and arts coverage on the train into work each day. (Paid Content)
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