Belfast paper where multitasking is key

Independent News & Media relaunched the Belfast-based Community Telegraph on May 31, but it looks like no outsourcing is needed here.

Roy Greenslade has details of how four diffrent geographical editions of the Telegraph have just one journalist; they do it all from reporting, taking photographs, sub pages, and publish the paper online too.

"The benefit of this is that we have huge 'ownership' of the paper, flexibility and no breakdown in communication with subs, photographers, etc. On the downside, we have constraints on the time spent writing stories, because of all the other responsibilities" said a reported who emailed Greenslade.

"From a purely financial point of view, it must be an immensely lucrative option to management, as we are paid the same wage as a regular reporter, yet do the jobs of four people in a traditional newspaper".