Torontoist: ‘Why the Star needs its own editors’ – an editor’s red-pen revenge
November 9th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Job losses, Journalism
Last week the Toronto Star announced plans to outsource around 100 editing jobs – an announcement met with red pen by one alleged ‘editor’ from the paper, who sub-edited the memo from Star publisher John Cruickshank in their own unique way…
New headline: “Why the Star needs its own editors”
New deck: “No one else has experience, knowledge and investment in the Star’s excellence to maintain the ‘brand’, say journalists.”
(HT Boing Boing)
Tags: Toronoto Star
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