The NUJ in Ireland has expressed grave concern at the €1.8m damages awarded against Independent Newspapers to communications consultant Monica Leech.
NUJ Irish Secretary Séamus Dooley said the record damages were “disproportionate and bore no relationship with reality.”
A High Court jury in Ireland awarded Leech €1.872 million after it found that a series of articles published in the Dublin-based Evening Herald in 2004 meant that she had been having an affair with a government minister.
Independent Newspapers plans to apply for a stay on the award, to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Northcliffe shake-up could cost 20 jobs
More than 20 people including three weekly editors are set to lose their jobs as a result of the shake-up at Tamworth-based Central Independent Newspapers, HoldtheFrontPage says today.
Northcliffe is proposing to centralise subbing of CIN at The Sentinel, Stoke.
HTFP is understood that 24 of the 42 jobs currently based at Tamworth are at risk, including the editors of four free weekly titles and features staff as well as sub-editors.
Those facing possible redundancy include Lichfield Mercury editor Tim Hewitt, Natalie Missenden, editor of the Walsall Advertiser and the Great Barr Observer, and Sutton Coldfield Observer editor Charlotte Hart.
It is proposed that in future all four free titles will come under the control of Tamworth Herald editor Gary Phelps, who is editor-in-chief of CIN.
HTFP also reports a number of redundancies have been proposed at the Sentinel, including three photographic posts and one assistant editor role.
Northcliffe is proposing to centralise subbing of CIN at The Sentinel, Stoke.
HTFP is understood that 24 of the 42 jobs currently based at Tamworth are at risk, including the editors of four free weekly titles and features staff as well as sub-editors.
Those facing possible redundancy include Lichfield Mercury editor Tim Hewitt, Natalie Missenden, editor of the Walsall Advertiser and the Great Barr Observer, and Sutton Coldfield Observer editor Charlotte Hart.
It is proposed that in future all four free titles will come under the control of Tamworth Herald editor Gary Phelps, who is editor-in-chief of CIN.
HTFP also reports a number of redundancies have been proposed at the Sentinel, including three photographic posts and one assistant editor role.
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