Dan Mason: ‘Five things journalists should do now – before they face redundancy’
March 13th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Job losses, Jobs, Journalism
“I’ve seen both sides of the story,” writes Dan Mason, a former regional newspaper editor (Coventry Evening Telegraph and Birmingham Post) and most recently, managing editor of 12 weeklies in London.
His post looks at ‘five things journalists should do now – before they face the threat of redundancy’. “It’s a beginning more than an ending,” he writes.
Firstly, ‘understand the redundancy process clearly BEFORE it starts,’ he says.
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