Why the Sunday paper's editor took issue with Will Lewis's digital revolution.
Claims the Independent this morning in its media section.According to the paper,far from not being willing to embrace the digital revolution,
far from throwing her stilettos into the machine, she was on the verge of launching The Sunday Telegraph's own comment blogs on its website, according to one insider.
Wheatcroft's allies say that she grew frustrated at the Sunday paper being starved of resources while a slew of appointments was made to bolster the online team.
And it was more to do with
"Patience believed it was only a matter of time before editorial departments across the daily and Sunday papers were merged to create a seven-day, 24-hour rolling news operation – a move that she believed would inevitably lead to The Sunday Telegraph losing its own distinct identity.
"She was convinced that the Telegraph Group's strategy would mean marginalising the Sunday paper."
As the article points out
Wheatcroft joins a growing list of former Telegraph editors who have bitten the dust since the stable of papers was bought by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay. Since the pair got their hands on the titles in July 2004, the Sunday and Daily Telegraph have had seven editors in total.
Peter Preston though writing in the Observer is convinced
she departed because she refused to make any more concessions over website integration between the two titles. She didn't want her 1.5 dedicated foreign correspondents swept up into the daily maw of podcasts and blogs and net commentaries. She wanted a few fresh minds and voices saved for the paper she was paid to edit and help succeed.
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