The Sun's most famous front page might be "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" but today it indulges in a bout of BBC bashing after Auntie's 24-hour News Channel ran the sensational breaking news ..."Lassie the hamster had been stolen from a flat in Stourport-on-Severn".
An outraged Sun reports: "Bulletins on the turmoil in Gaza and a third Heathrow runway gave way to a shock-horror news ticker along the bottom of the screen screaming:HAMSTER THEFT."
Despite mocking the "BBC chews flash," The Sun asks readers today to phone the paper if they know where Lassie is.
Oh, and The Sun's splash today? Is it the turmoil in Gaza or third Heathrow runway? No its "NASA scientists last night confirmed that there probably IS life on Mars".
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Telegraph subbing outsourced to Australia
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!
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!
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