The News Now model allows papers to shed staff by training reporters to subedit and headline their own stories as well as take photographs and write captions. |
They subedit two stories, write headlines, choose pictures and produce their page to a tight deadline. |
I was taught to subedit by a wonderful bunch of male, middle-aged reprobates who worked on the news pages of a national newspaper, one of whom helpfully advised me that nobody liked subs. |
Towards the end of the day, deputy production editor Jamie Fahey worked with the group to help them subedit their pages. |
Pupils will also subedit stories, write headlines, choose photographs and produce their Victorian news front page to tight deadlines. |
Under the News Now model implemented at Fairfax's Australian Community Media, the few journalists who remain now have to write, subedit, take photos and lay out all their own stories. |