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Reuters staff overseas told to cut back weekend work

Reuters journalists overseas have been ordered to cut back on weekend working because of staff shortages that have affected handling of news during the week, according to a story on The Baron, a website that tracks Reuters.

The Baron reports, “Bureaus have been instructed to hold down copy. Come September, stories judged to be secondaries, ‘nice to have’ or ‘just in case’ are likely to be spiked.

“‘The reason for the changes is that we now no longer have enough staff to handle the copy flow when we are busiest – Monday to Friday – and so plan to trim our sails at the weekend when things are, generally, quieter,’ London-based head of desk for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Jon Boyle said in a note to bureau chiefs and chief correspondents.

“Four sub-editors will be on duty on Saturdays compared with eight now and there will be a total of seven on Sundays (plus someone from the Top News team and probably one or two contractors). By way of comparison, Asia desk has just two people each weekend day.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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