View all newsletters
Sign up for our free email newsletters

Fighting for quality news media in the digital age.

  1. Archive content
August 4, 2005updated 22 Nov 2022 4:23pm

Sun staff fear 6am start will mean longer hours

By Press Gazette

By Dominic Ponsford

News and picture desk journalists at The Sun are facing early starts
as part of an editorial shake-up proposed as part of a cost-cutting
package.

Management is proposing that the desks change to a five-day week
working from 6am-4pm, rather than the four-day, 7am-7pm system
reportedly in operation at the moment.

But according to one
insider there is a suspicion that the working day will drag on past 4pm
and journalists could end up working longer hours.

According to a
Sun source, News International Staff Association (NISA), the
company-funded union at the paper, has negotiated a reduction in the
number of compulsory redundancies from 20 to 16.

One theory doing
the rounds at Wapping is that the changes are connnected with the
construction of new £600m presses for all News International titles,
and that The Sun could be preparing to become more of a 24-hour news
operation further down the line.

Both NISA and Sun management declined to comment.

Content from our partners
MHP Group's 30 To Watch awards for young journalists open for entries
How PA Media is helping newspapers make the digital transition
Publishing on the open web is broken, how generative AI could help fix it

The changes have coincided with the revival of The Sun’s NUJ chapel last Friday after a break of 20 years.

The NUJ claims to have 50 members, out of a total editorial headcount claimed by management to be in the region of 400.

Topics in this article :

Email pged@pressgazette.co.uk to point out mistakes, provide story tips or send in a letter for publication on our "Letters Page" blog

Select and enter your email address Weekly insight into the big strategic issues affecting the future of the news industry. Essential reading for media leaders every Thursday. Your morning brew of news about the world of news from Press Gazette and elsewhere in the media. Sent at around 10am UK time. Our weekly does of strategic insight about the future of news media aimed at US readers. A fortnightly update from the front-line of news and advertising. Aimed at marketers and those involved in the advertising industry.
  • Business owner/co-owner
  • CEO
  • COO
  • CFO
  • CTO
  • Chairperson
  • Non-Exec Director
  • Other C-Suite
  • Managing Director
  • President/Partner
  • Senior Executive/SVP or Corporate VP or equivalent
  • Director or equivalent
  • Group or Senior Manager
  • Head of Department/Function
  • Manager
  • Non-manager
  • Retired
  • Other
Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications.
Thank you

Thanks for subscribing.

Websites in our network