The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Information / Communication Publishing Of Information; Production And Programming Of Audiovisual Publishing Activities 58.13 - Publishing of newspapers
86 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 September 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Express Newspapers have announced that 86 jobs are to be lost at The Daily Express and The Sunday Express. The main cuts are amongst subeditors, with 36 of 62 staff subeditors being cut, together with 33 regular casual subeditors and 17 other casuals, at the company's offices in the City of London. Managers at the newspaper are to meet with the National Union of Journalists to agree the timing of the redundancies. The newspaper has attributed the cuts to the economic situation in the UK, coupled with the introduction of the new Woodwing editing system which allows staff to write their stories directly onto pages rather than sending them to a subeditor. It is not known how many people in total work for the Express owing to their system of employing staff and freelance workers.
Sources
10 September 2008: The Guardian
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Express Newspapers, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67079, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67079.
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