Talking of Newsquest's cost-cutting (see below), here's a further example that is, for me, close to home.
The Brighton Argus is to lose six subbing posts because the paper is to be subbed from Southampton (creating just three extra jobs there, incidentally).
The move follows last year's transfer of printing operations from Brighton to Newsquest's Southampton headquarters.
A seventh Argus job - the post of Worthing reporter - is also to go.
A member of the Argus staff told me that the cuts mean only two subs will now be working at the paper's Brighton offices. "Sad days," he said. "It's grim."
Disclosure: I live in Brighton and am, nominally at least, a community blogger for the Argus (though I haven't posted in an age).
Source: Brighton & Hove News
