- Target:
- Saving quality journalism in Yorkshire
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- ypchapel.wordpress.com
Management at Johnson Press, owners of the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post, are trying impose cutbacks to these papers which will reduce the quality of coverage, with fewer editions, making journalists redundant and smaller budgets.
Johnston Press’s Edinburgh-based executives claim that the firm is in financial difficulty. While the business does have huge debts, run up by acquisition-hungry managers, it is still making multi-million pound profits.
Those executives now want to spend less money on “your” papers so they can service that debt. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) are taking action to protect their jobs and those of their colleagues, and to ensure the continued quality of your newspapers.
Please sign this petition to signal you support for our fight.
We, the undersigned, call for management at Johnson Press to commit themselves to the highest quality coverage in the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post by ensuring that their newsrooms are properly staffed and resourced; that quality is not sacrificed and that no journalists striving hard to cover the county’s communities lose their jobs.
We support the NUJ in its fight to achieve this.
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The Save Quality Journalism In Yorkshire petition to Saving quality journalism in Yorkshire was written by Mark Casci and is in the category Media Issues at GoPetition.