Comments on: Journalistic organizations http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/10/29/journalistic-organizations/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:30:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tim Worstall http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/10/29/journalistic-organizations/#comment-362458 Tim Worstall Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:39:30 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/10/29/journalistic-organizations/#comment-362458 Sundays in the UK are really almost entirely separate from the dailys. Different editor, different writers, different journalists, different house style. This is partly still a hangover from the old craft unions. The production workers (printers, typesetters) were all employed on the dailys and no Saturday night working for them. All production was then done by hte same people on casual shifts. With the G and the Obs it's even more different. There's a very different house style (they were, after all, independent papers for a century or two), the Obs being perhaps more classically liberal, the G more modernly so. As to what's going on? It's a cull of the Observer people. Sundays in the UK are really almost entirely separate from the dailys. Different editor, different writers, different journalists, different house style. This is partly still a hangover from the old craft unions. The production workers (printers, typesetters) were all employed on the dailys and no Saturday night working for them. All production was then done by hte same people on casual shifts.
With the G and the Obs it’s even more different. There’s a very different house style (they were, after all, independent papers for a century or two), the Obs being perhaps more classically liberal, the G more modernly so.
As to what’s going on? It’s a cull of the Observer people.

]]> By: Conrad Quilty-Harper http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/10/29/journalistic-organizations/#comment-362385 Conrad Quilty-Harper Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:50:11 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/10/29/journalistic-organizations/#comment-362385 You've gotta understand the English tradition of petering on down to the local corner shop to pick up some milk and a paper on a frosty Sunday morning. Beyond that there's the regular magazines that come bundled with Sunday papers (my favorite part of the Observer is the Monthly Music Magazine and the more general and light hearted Observer Magazine every week), and all the free CDs and other crap that comes bundled with the other Sunday papers. The free stuff is either a sign of how popular they are, or how much they're struggling, depending on how you look at it. As for the Observer chief leaving, sounds to me like a regular retirement deal. And what better time to leave than just before the uncertainty about the roles of Sunday papers (and papers in general) really starts to bite? You’ve gotta understand the English tradition of petering on down to the local corner shop to pick up some milk and a paper on a frosty Sunday morning. Beyond that there’s the regular magazines that come bundled with Sunday papers (my favorite part of the Observer is the Monthly Music Magazine and the more general and light hearted Observer Magazine every week), and all the free CDs and other crap that comes bundled with the other Sunday papers. The free stuff is either a sign of how popular they are, or how much they’re struggling, depending on how you look at it.

As for the Observer chief leaving, sounds to me like a regular retirement deal. And what better time to leave than just before the uncertainty about the roles of Sunday papers (and papers in general) really starts to bite?

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