Who needs those bloody subs anyway?!?!

About 40 editing jobs expected to go at Fairfax

NZPA

Fairfax Media, which owns The Dominion Post and The Press among other publications, today flagged lay-offs of about 40 sub-editors.

The company said it had 190 sub-editors across the group and although initial indications suggested about 40 redundancies, no firm numbers could be given until after a consultation period.

The move is another blow to the news media industry. This month the New Zealand Press Association announced it was cutting seven jobs and last year TVNZ cut nearly 60 news and current affairs jobs while The New Zealand Herald's publisher, APN New Zealand, cut 70 sub-editors in an out-sourcing move.

APN said at the time it w anted to centralise the sub-editing of all its print titles with Pagemasters, which hired up to 50 people.

Fairfax Media said today that the move was part of its plan to have "national centres of expertise" for world, features and business pages on its nine daily newspapers. More generic pages such as the weather and tv pages could follow. MORE

So ... does this represent a slow and steady erosion of the standards of journalism???