Scotsman facing death by a thousand cuts, union warms
The former offices of The Scotsman newspaper group on North Bridge in Edinburgh, which became The Scotsman Hotel in 2001
THE Scotsman newspaper is “dying from a thousand cuts” as a quarter of its newsroom face being axed, according to the NUJ.
The union branded as “short-sighted” plans from the 207-year-old newspaper’s owners, National World, to slash a quarter of its newsroom, cutting feature writers, business reporting and axing correspondents in health, environment and property altogether.
After the newspaper’s editor, Neil McIntosh, refused to meet staff to discuss the proposals, the Scotsman’s NUJ chapel wrote to Claire Jackson, head of HR at National World.
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