The editor of a paper where journalists have been on strike for a month has been declared redundant by the publisher, Johnston Press.
Jim Oldfield, editor the South Yorkshire Times, has been supporting the strikers and has twice reported the dispute on his paper's front page.
Oldfield received notice of his "redundancy" in a letter sent by courier to his home.
Last month, at an NUJ meeting, he said that his annual pay - after 37 years in journalism - was £25,500. He also revealed that trainee journalists at Johnston Press's south Yorkshire group were earning £14,000 while senior reporters were getting £18,000.
* The National Union of Journalists has written to Johnston's chief executive, John Fry, calling for an investigation into the methods it alleges have been used to break the strike.
Sources: Press Gazette/Jon Slattery/NUJ
