NST study-toured Independent UK
NST Executive Editor (Production) P'ng Hong Kwang and Associate Editor (Production) Chandra Segar spent a week at The Independent in UK, a successful broadsheet-turned compact - recently.
Come March 1, Little Birds say, The NST will come in a 96-page package daily, with no sectional inserts. The process is said to help save on labour cost for manual inserts currently payable to the newspapers vendors, and to speed up delivery time at door-steps and retail outlets.
With that, off-stone (cutoff time to put the papers to sleep) will be adjusted to 11.00pm, which will contribute towards savings in staffers' over-time remuneration . The Star's is normally around 2.00am.
Comments
NST is already far behind the STAR.
This change to an earlier cut off will injure them further.
Obviously NST management doesn't understand many things can happen in that short 3 hours.
The persistent news lag will be most glaring.
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February 15, 2006 09:27 AM
NSTP should close shop and save the forests. Their reporting is not worth the paper its printed on..... Ditto to The Star...
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February 15, 2006 11:12 AM