It is the online equivalent of leaving your opened pay packet next to the photocopier. Martin Newland's Abu Dhabi-based newspaper, the National, has had what appears to be its entire staff's salary details leaked on to the web. The figures are believed to be the monthly salaries, in dirhams, which would give Newland, editor-in-chief of the government-owned paper, a cool tax-free annual take home of about £320,000 a year. All 250 National staff feature on the document, including all those former Telegraph staffers that Newland took with him to the United Arab Emirates. It doesn't say much about the National's security, nor will it do a great deal for morale on the paper. What they need to do is organise some sort of team bonding day out. Paintballing, perhaps. Well-paid against not quite so well-paid, obviously.
