Monday, September 08, 2008

Lewis on how the Telegraph is after all a happy place to work

In the face of gloomy news from the newspaper industry the Independent carries an upbeat interview with the Telegraph's editor Will Lewis who maintains following its colour relaunch last week that

"In essence, what we have done is put a group of highly talented journalists in a room and asked them to get on with it. We have provided the means for them to express themselves in paper, online, down a mobile phone and in distribution outlets that we haven't yet announced. That is now working brilliantly. We are a united operation in a way that I haven't experienced before in newspapers


And rebutes accusations that his newsroom is the gloomiest amongst the nationals

How can a paper be so bloody brilliant? How can a website be growing at a rate of 109 per cent a year, if we've got unhappy staff? It doesn't add up to me,"
adding that

It's a professional place. There's no glass ceiling, no concrete ceiling. People talk about morale and unhappiness, I can't compute that

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