Le Monde newsroom grinds to a halt over job cuts
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by
Paul McNally
on 18 April 2008
at 08:45
Tags: Journalism
Journalists at French daily newspaper Le Monde downed tools yesterday for only the third time in the title’s 63-year history.
The strike is over plans to cut around a third of the workforce at the loss-making paper - a move which has angered reporters.
“How will we make a quality daily newspaper with such a small number of reporters?” union rep Christiane Chombeau told the Wall Street Journal Europe.
Tags: Journalism
