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The publisher is seeking to make staff cuts of 30% – about 200 posts, equating to 150 full-time positions – to reduce editorial headcount from about 650 to 450.
In response to the economic downturn, Guardian News & Media is cutting about 50 editorial staff by the end of the year, across the Guardian, Observer and theguardian.com, as part of a plan to reduce editorial costs by £10m.
It creates demand in the advertising market by limiting the number of ad pages it sells most weeks to about 20, eliminating the need to expand or reduce editorial content based on how well the sales staff did in a given week.
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Management had originally sought a reduction of about 200 posts, reducing editorial numbers to about 450.
Parliamentary control of the corporation's budget has had the effect of reducing editorial staff and thereby reducing news coverage.
(Dylan Howard told me that Pecker reduced editorial expenses by fifty-two per cent over four years, while producing the same number of magazines).
Harding's remarks, made in an email to staff, follow announcements to staff that the Times and Sunday Times, which make daily losses in the region of £240,000, are looking to cut up to 80 staff between them and each reduce their editorial budgets by 10%.
Mr. Newhouse's reported instructions to make Wired relevant has reduced the editorial randomness that made the magazine seem as if it had just landed from a far-flung, but interesting, planet, but it has also reduced the metabolism of the assignments.
Public interest groups have criticized the cutbacks at local newsrooms because they reduce the number of editorial voices in a given market.
"The net effect of these changes will be to slightly reduce the number of editorial employees at the publication — by less than one full-time position — and better align The Voice with the long-term business and editorial goals of the company," Ms. Sfetko said.
This competitive culling process is designed to judge which contributors excel, as well as reduce the need for editorial oversight by crowdsourcing part of that function.The team finds participants in its experiment via Mechanical Turk, an automated task-jobbing service built by Amazon.com, an online retailer, as part of its cloud and computation division.
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