The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Saturday that the Telegraph has outsourced some of its production work, including its weekly travel, money and motoring sections and parts of The Sunday Telegraph, to a company based in Australia.
The company is Sydney-based Pagemasters, owned by the news agency Australian Associated Press. According to the Sydney Morning Herald: "Industry sources said moving production to Pagemasters would allow the Telegraph to save on night and overtime penalties for workers in Britain and get more expensive staff off its books."
Pagemasters was set up in 1991 and Fairfax Media and Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd each own 47 per cent of its parent, AAP. Its chief executive, Bruce Davidson, a former News Ltd executive, said the company hoped to expand further: "There is no doubt the centralisation of the production of newspapers is on the radar of a lot of publishers not only in Australia, but around the world."
In December Holdthe Front Page reported that outsourcing subbing operations to the Press Association was being considered by the Johnston Press-owned Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post.
Picked up this story from journalism.co.uk via twitter!
No comments:
Post a Comment