Former Fairfax metro papers sub-edited in-house
By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Tuesday, 14th May 2019 at 3:55pmThe Nine Network has opted to have the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, and The Age run their own sub-editing departments.
The company announced that it will end an existing agreement that the former Fairfax Media had with Pagemasters since 2011 when 70 sub-editing jobs were outsourced to the company. As such, 24 people overall will be hired for the three papers’ production teams over the next several months, with 30 September 2019 as the date where everybody must be in place.
Nine, however, will still honour a second agreement where Pagemasters will assist on the development of racing pages, TV listings, advertising feature page layouts, and online comment moderations.
“This is great news that reflects the importance of The Age and The Herald’s ...
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