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News Of The World Former Hacks Offered Poorly Paid Roles As Stringers In Siberia

Huffington Post UK   Dina Rickman First Posted: 28/07/11 13:02 BST Updated: 27/09/11 11:12 BST

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Rebekah Brooks has kept her promise that ex-News of the World staff will be offered new roles in News Corp – by proposing former senior journalists take up roles stringing abroad for barely over the minimum wage.

According to a blog by former News of the World gadgets editor Trevor Davies and people close to the situation, human resources at News International have offered journalists roles which pay barely more the minimum wage.

Davies wrote: “I was told it would be unlikely I would be offered a job with the same level of pay I am currently on - and that’s if I am offered a job at all … I am so angry … an innocent highly skilled NOTW worker.”

Another former senior sub editor told the Huffington Post UK they were offered a job abroad as a stringer for a wire service owned by News Corp.

The Guardian also reports one former journalist was offered a job in Siberia and in other News Corp businesses such as financial news wire Dow Jones.

They quoted a former News of the World journalist saying: "The idea that you would go from the News of the World to becoming an oil reporter for Dow Jones, a high end financial wire service, is laughable".

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Rebekah Brooks has kept her promise that ex-News of the World staff will be offered new roles in News Corp – by proposing former senior journalists take up roles stringing abroad for barely over the...
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Tony Booth
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03:39 PM on 07/30/2011
these people chose to work for the NotW, no one forced them. they've been lucky to pull those inflated salaries for so long.
the job of journalist is not respectable to start with but then working for murdoch also suggests that big money is more important than self respect.
i suspect that they are all flea infested although i feel some sympathy for the way they were dismissed.
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02:37 PM on 07/30/2011
Sir

Are we reallysupposed to feel sorry for these people? Surely not.

Sincerely, Derek Lantin
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arkymorgan
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01:10 AM on 07/30/2011
Now, perhaps, some of them will be getting their lawyers to look over any non-disclosure agreements they signed, and seeing just how many beans they can spill in retaliation...
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abbadabba
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10:32 PM on 07/29/2011
I read a story along these lines at NYT's Dealb%k, but that's an aggregator, too, so I don't know the source. I recall they have business ties with Putin and put up a big banner of his mug for him in Moscow, for free. Always slicking the palms, those Murdochs.
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carlgt1
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10:08 AM on 07/29/2011
surely they could just be moved over to Faux News in the USA? there's no journalistic standards or integrity there, so they'd be a perfect fit in this other Murdoch organization.
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European1919
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06:24 AM on 07/29/2011
Oh well. You sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
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Anne Siperek
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10:24 PM on 07/28/2011
well, they will be better off..it will actually be a bit colder in England.
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09:14 PM on 07/28/2011
Siberia would be a fitting location for most of the former hacks of the NOTW to be sent to, wouldn't many agree...
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cdnman
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05:35 PM on 07/28/2011
Hmmmm ...well, the Rovers Return on Coronation St. is in need of a cleaner.
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botzarelli
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04:23 PM on 07/28/2011
There's nothing particularly unusual about a business providing redundant employees with a full list of vacancies within the organisation or with that list including unsuitable jobs in far flung locations when the business is a large multinational.

More interesting is the story picked up by the Guardian about the potential legal action by former employees to sue for damages for the stigma of having been employed by the NotW.

My comment on that is at http://botzarelli.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/stigmata-martyrs-can-redundant-notw-workers-pour-salt-on-murdoch%e2%80%99s-wounds/
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01:36 PM on 07/28/2011
C'mon, what did they expect, SERIOUSLY? Brooks and NI couldn't give a monkeys about ethics or integrity. Why should they care about their now former employees?
And the location of these jobs, inso many far and disparate places. One would think they were being salted all over the planet on subsistence wages so they couldn't give testimony to the inquiry when it starts up in September.
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02:38 PM on 07/30/2011
Well said.
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12:27 PM on 07/28/2011
"The idea that you would go from the News of the World to becoming an oil reporter for Dow Jones, a high end financial wire service, is laughable".

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It's true. Expecting anyone who has worked for a News Group Newspapers title to be able to deal with a real journalism role where you have to use facts and honest/ethical reporting standards seems a stretch.
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