Tag Archives: sub-editors

Justin’s survival guide for sub-editors

By Julie Starr | Published: September 18, 2008
I've been meaning to point to this for a while. It's a post from Justin Williams, workflow guru and assistant editor at Telegraph Media Group in the UK. He talks about the decline of the role of sub-editors, or rather an evolutionary blurring of the lines between what a sub, a news editor, commissioning editor and web editor does. "If I was a reporter now and an old hand sidled up to me and suggested that I might like to retrain as a sub, I’d run a mile. And as for joining one of the nationals’ subbing schemes for graduate trainees … fugeddaboutit."
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Fairfax Australia to outsource sub-editing

By Julie Starr | Published: September 17, 2008
Fairfax is outsourcing sub-editing from its Sydney and Melbourne flagship papers to Pagemasters, the same company that handles pages for the NZ Herald and other APN titles.
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Fairfax to centralise newspaper production

By Julie Starr | Published: July 1, 2008
Fairfax is taking a leaf out of APN's book with the announcement it will centralise some of its newspaper production. It means sub-editors based in two main centres - Wellington and Christchurch - will sub, lay out and produce pages for the Features, World and Business sections of its nine daily newspapers. Generic non-news pages such as TV and Weather will be standardised across the titles.
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Living under a rock

By Julie Starr | Published: June 18, 2008
I've been in the process of moving house - to a place with no internet access - while spending a busy week producing the Fieldays Exhibitor, an annual publication created by Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) students and distributed to exhibitors at the Fieldays agricultural show out at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton.
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Sub-editors replaced by advertising designers

By Julie Starr | Published: April 10, 2008
While some newspapers are downsizing their sub-editing teams, and some are outsourcing, it seems others are now doing away with them all together. UK regional newspaper company Archant is replacing sub-editors with advertising designers, according to the Guardian. Archant's newspaper arm publishes four regional dailies and around 60 weeklies.
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