The "bloodbath" at newspapers owned by Australia's Fairfax Media has started to show its effects. The cutbacks are proving to be particularly savage at the Canberra Times.
The paper that serves Australia's capital city, affectionately known as the Crimes, is losing some of its most experienced journalists who have been responsible for its arts, literary, food and science coverage.
Among those said to be accepting redundancy are the features editor, literary editor, arts editor and the food and wine section editor. The science reporter has already departed. In future, content for the arts and literary pages will be produced at the Fairfax headquarters.
Crimes editor Rod Quinn's mantra to staff is that there must be "no more duplication" with copy from other Fairfax mastheads.
Source: Crikey
