At the risk of annoying my former subbing colleagues still further (see yesterday's comments), here's what I call the transition phase to having no subs at all - outsourcing. Robert Berkeley is chief executive of an Indian-based company, Express KCS, that is currently designing and producing adverts for more than 300 US newspaper titles and some British papers too, such as the Brighton Argus.
But, as he tells America's National Public Radio, he has hired copy-editors (aka subs) who are carrying out trials with various papers.
Before The Sun's subs desk has another collective rush of blood to the head, I am fully aware that such outsourcing will not work for popular tabloids. Cool down, chaps, cool down.
