The National Union of Journalists said it would be seeking guarantees from the new owners about working conditions and editorial independence, and expressed "concern at the speed at which the deal seems to have been made".
What this bizarre episode chiefly illustrates, I think, is the dismal editorial conditions prevailing in contemporary British (and American) publishing houses, and the desperation rife among editorial cohorts at the pressures under which they are forced to operate.
These were ranked in the top quarter for at least two desirable dimensions: coverage of medical conditions (volume) and editorial quality and evidence based methodology.
His condition was complete editorial control, which he said was honored.
Also, I want to be very clear that I accepted the editor position at TechCrunch under the condition that our editorial independence be maintained.
Indeed, a seventies person thinks that hairdos and pop songs and television commercials are truer, deeper, more complete articulations of the national condition than, say, editorials and poems and works of political philosophy.
Last Monday, Rinehart threatened to sell her Fairfax shares if board seats were not made available to her without unsuitable conditions, a reference to the editorial charter of independence that has been at the centre of a row between her and the board.
While making irrelevant remarks about the sanitary conditions in the courtroom, your editorial did not explain what substantive claim it had against the verdict, which, incidentally, can still be overturned on appeal and was reached after months of deliberations and testimony with all guarantees for the defendant to present his defense.
You led the editorial collective of Conditions.
