Our friend Alan Qualtrough – you know, the editor of the Western Morning News who is famously bloggingly-challenged – is excited by proposals which will see 30 of his colleagues lose their jobs.
It’s all part of the plan to merge the Western Morning News and the Western Daily Press, which will see the whole of Northcliffe’s South West operation do the hokey-kokey, with the upshot of 20 sub editor jobs at risk in Torquay and Exeter, and 11 jobs under threat in Bristol.
Could Alan’s excitement be that he’s been given a promotion on the back of these changes? He’ll be the editor-in-chief of the two titles?
He told Hold the Front Page: “This is an exciting project to relaunch two newspapers for the modern market.”
Alan’s winning track-record and superb grasp of the ‘modern market’, what with his own short-lived foray into blogging, must have made him a favourite with the board room.
He gushed: “We believe the changes we are proposing will have a positive effect on both the Western Morning News and the Western Daily Press.”
Northcliffe is still making a massive profit though, so that board-room will be happy. And these changes come on the back of the printing press at Plymouth has been closed down.
‘Exciting’ times indeed.
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