Fair go, Fairfax - Don't discount journalism - Sunday Age clings to "hope"

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Sunday Age clings to "hope"

Monday, 08 September 2008

Fairfax Media plans to cut up to 14% of the editorial staff from its metro daily newspapers. One of the affected papers, The Sunday Age, notes that sub-editors' jobs are among some of those to be lost in the short-sighted approach to cost-cutting. In its editorial it hopes the company fully understands the implications for quality : "To lose 45-55 people will be painful and dispiriting. What we have been asked to do is to think hard, even radically, to concentrate on what we do best. We welcome Fairfax's repeated commitment to quality - it's the papers' most precious asset. Can we do it? The truth is, we hope so." Read the full editorial

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