The Sydney Morning Herald: Daily Telegraph outsources production to Australia
January 10th, 2009Posted by John Thompson in Editors' pick
UK broadsheet the Daily Telegraph has outsourced some of its production work to Pagemasters, a company based in Rhodes, western Sydney.
The company, owned by news agency Australian Associated Press, will copy edit and layout raw copy for the Telegraph’s travel, motoring and money pages as well as parts of The Sunday Telegraph.
The move is intended to “save on night and overtime penalties for workers in Britain and get more expensive staff off its books”, writes the Herald. Full story…
Tags: Australia, newspaper outsource, Outsourcing, production, Sydney, the Daily Telegraph, The Herald
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