This morning's announcement by Financial Times editor Lionel Barber that the paper is to undergo more changes in its editorial production is part of a long-term process rather than a sudden decision due to the prevailing economic dramas afflicting the newspaper industry.
Clearly, reducing the cost of production is important, and it underlies many of the initiatives taking place in all newspapers, big and small, popular and serious, national and local.
But the FT set out on this course more than two years ago, preferring to institute an evolutionary strategy rather than risking the problems that may be caused by a revolutionary "big bang".
