HR Issues

LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Times is cutting about 50 editorial staff, or 10 percent of the total, by merging its print and online news desks and streamlining its production set-up, the newspaper said on Tuesday. The paper has launched a voluntary redundancy programme and said it would enter a 30-day consultation with the National Union of Journalists "to keep redundancies to a minimum." The...

If sex, religion and caste are to be taken together, more than two-thirds of the top media professionals in the country come from less than 10 per cent of the population. Hindu upper caste men, who are barely 8 per cent of the country's population, have a majority share of 71 per cent among top media professionals in the country. These findings are from the same survey of the social profile of key...

Sun editor Rebekah Wade, Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow and Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman all did, but Today presenter John Humphrys, News of the World editor Andy Coulson and BBC Ten O'Clock News presenter Fiona Bruce did not. More than half of Britain's top 100 journalists were educated at private schools, a proportion that has increased over the past two decades, according to research. The figures...

About 70 reporters, editors, photographers and newsroom administrators have taken early retirement offers from The Washington Post Co., as the company's flagship newspaper works to contain costs while circulation continues a slow slide. Some familiar and veteran bylines will exit The Post's pages, such as those of political writer Thomas B. Edsall, science writer Guy Gugliotta, foreign...

New Delhi, May 29: Wage Boards for Journalists and Non-Journalists will be constituted "very soon", Union Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said today. This assurance was given by Rao to a delegation of Indian Journalists Union (IJU), which met him, to press for their demands, including the setting up of new wage boards for the newspaper industry employees. Admitting that the constitution of the...

Jaipur, April. 30 (PTI): The confederation of newspapers and news agency organisations, an umbrella organisation of apex media trade unions, today asked the Centre to immediately announce setting up of the new wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees in the newspaper industry and said it would draw up an agitation plan soon. Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day meeting...

Jaipur, April. 29 (PTI): The confederation of newspapers and news agency organisations, an umbrella organisation of apex media trade unions, today threatened a countrywide agitation, including an indefinite strike, if the Central Government does not set up new wage boards for journalists and non-journalists at the earliest. Addressing a two-day annual general meeting of the confederation here, its...

I was unceremoniously fired this month by my Saudi newspaper, a leading English-language daily called Arab News. It didn't matter that I had been the senior columnist on the op-ed page for nine years or that my work was quoted widely in the European and American media, including this paper. What mattered was that I had committed one of the three cardinal sins an Arab journalist must avoid when...

Journalists' leaders in India are being urged to lead a new campaign to reinforce rights of women journalists in one of Asia's dramatically expanding media markets. A five-day union debate on gender equality and women's rights concluded with a call to make women's rights and improved portrayal of women priorities over the coming year. Unions are being invited to set up special gender councils to...

A new report has highlighted a worldwide trend of experienced senior staff being replaced by younger graduates who are often employed on a casual or freelance basis and on less pay. The report –The Changing Nature of Work: A Global Survey – polled 41 journalists' organisations in 38 countries that are affiliated to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), including the All-India...