It has been a busy couple of weeks for newspaper editors, perhaps none more so than the Independent's Roger Alton, who has relaunched and redesigned the paper - not to everyone's taste, including our own Roy Greenslade. Anyway, Monkey happened upon Alton's invite to staff asking them around for a celebratory drink last week. Here is his memo:
To everyone
I just wanted to say thanks hugely to everyone - from Biz, to Graphics, to the Racing Desk, to the Back Bench, to Comment, the News Room, Features, the lot, and then back again - for all your extraordinary efforts in the last few weeks. With tight papers, and an amazing news agenda, as well as going to full colour overnight and producing several completely new sections, and redesigning many others, the performance of everybody has been amazing. And, er, totally uncomplaining of course. Nobody could have asked for, or got, more. I am extraordinarily grateful, and I think you produce a fantastic paper, every bloody day. So I hope you don't mind if I ask you to come and have a credit crunching glass of something around my office at last orders tomorrow (Friday) evening. That's last orders in first edition terms, not licensed premises.
So, confusion to our enemies, and fuck Roy Greenslade.
Roger
