More jump ship from The News
Only five of the original 14 people rehired by Grupo Mac to man The News, Mexico City’s struggling English-language newspaper, remain at the title.
As we reported a couple of weeks ago, Brian Rausch was the most recent editor of the newspaper following the dismissal of Malcolm Beith – who was the first to sit in the editor’s chair after The News was sold by its former owner Victor Hugo O’Farill to Grupo Mac at the beginning of June.
MexicoReporter.com understands that Rausch left the newspaper today along with four other people, and that three others left on Monday. Of the five remaining and original employees, only two of them are native English speakers.
Either way, the latest developments at the News do not bode well for the title, which for the last two weeks has relied even more heavily on wire reports and translated copy from other Grupo Mac titles to fill its pages.
This story will be updated over the coming 24 hours, so stay tuned. Get in touch on dbonello@gmail.com if you have more info, or leave a comment.
*edited at 7:28pm Mexico City time. Rausch and 7, not 8, others left the paper today, leaving 5 remaining.
*edited at 8:09pm. Four other people left the newspaper together along with Rausch – three others left on Monday.
Check out Lesley Tellez’s observations about the quality of today’s News.
– Deborah Bonello for MexicoReporter.com
Category: culture, editorial, journalism, media
As a foreigner living in Guanajuato, and a once-avid reader of The News, I am appalled to see the decline of the paper over the past week. Reading your posts, i understand a shakeup is under way, but the new owners must take control of the situation before the paper becomes a joke — or worse, a plagiarism factory. In today’s edition alone, there are not only typos but at least one outright journalistic lie: it’s well known that the News has no correspondent in Nuevo Leon, yet a story by “The News” on p3 has a dateline of Nuevo Leon. It’s one thing to have bad typos throughout the paper (and it is understandable given the staffing and multinational nature of the staff) but outright lying is not forgivable in journalism. I canceled my subscription today, I recommend others do the same unless a promise is made in print to improve this paper.
[...] Fourteen were rehired, but most have since quit. Eight employees resigned this week, according to Mexico Reporter. Only two native English speakers [...]