Media News - Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Outsourcing news journalism will damage quality and further harm failing newspapers warns IFJ
Newspapers that break up their editorial departments and outsource
journalistic work to money-saving information production factories will
only hasten the demise of the traditional press in developed countries,
warned the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today. The IFJ
was responding to plans by New Zealand’s biggest daily newspaper – The
New Zealand Herald – to outsource editorial production in a move that
will cut 30 jobs. ‘Cutting jobs, breaking up the professional chain of
journalism and moving editors away from the reporters’ room is no answer
to circulation decline,’ said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. APN
News & Media – half owned by Dublin-based Independent News & Media,
which publishes 175 newspapers and magazines worldwide – has
commissioned an outside contractor to do the editing and layout work for
The New Zealand Herald along with several regional papers and weeklies.
Unions fear similar strategies will be taken up across the group
including Ireland, where Independent Newspapers dominates the media
landscape.
(International Federation of Journalists)
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