A concerned TSF reader sent this Help Wanted posting in hopes of calming fears of more Sun Media layoffs.
"Our newspaper company dominates the southwestern/southern Ontario market and this smells of another daily newspaper decentralizing effort," says the reader.
"Our newspaper company dominates the southwestern/southern Ontario market and this smells of another daily newspaper decentralizing effort," says the reader.
So what do you make of the following?
Copy Editors (multiple) REF#: JG7909
confidential
Location: southwestern, Ontario
Posted: September 17, 2010
Deadline: October 8, 2010
Salary:
Description
TO RUN AS A FEATURED JOB
SEPTEMBER 24 TO OCTOBER 8
Editors with experience on a daily newspaper copy desk are needed for full- and part-time work in Southern Ontario.
Qualifications
Solid spelling and grammatical skills as well as knowledge of CP Style are vital. Proficiency in Quark and Indesign are valuable, but not essential.
Telecommuting is not an option.
Thanks to all applicants but only qualified candidates will be contacted. Please e-mail resume and cover note - stating you found this job on Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board - to:
confidential
southwestern , ON
E-mail: copyeditorswanted@gmail.com.
Copy Editors (multiple) REF#: JG7909
confidential
Location: southwestern, Ontario
Posted: September 17, 2010
Deadline: October 8, 2010
Salary:
Description
TO RUN AS A FEATURED JOB
SEPTEMBER 24 TO OCTOBER 8
Editors with experience on a daily newspaper copy desk are needed for full- and part-time work in Southern Ontario.
Qualifications
Solid spelling and grammatical skills as well as knowledge of CP Style are vital. Proficiency in Quark and Indesign are valuable, but not essential.
Telecommuting is not an option.
Thanks to all applicants but only qualified candidates will be contacted. Please e-mail resume and cover note - stating you found this job on Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board - to:
confidential
southwestern , ON
E-mail: copyeditorswanted@gmail.com.
A posting on this board reported recently that the Petrolia central pagination centre would be closing down after workers got their first union contract and that the work would shift to London and Woodstock. Surely this advertisement is the latter stocking up on staff for the shift of this work.
ReplyDeleteYep, another Sun Media sweat shop setting up, which means more job cuts coming to a newsroom near you.
ReplyDeleteActually, the pagination centre that's closing is located in Dresden, not Petrolia.
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