Daily Telegraph outsources production to Australia

by Dan Leahul, Brand Republic 13-Jan-09, 09:15

SYDNEY - The Daily Telegraph will be outsourcing its sub-editing duties to Australian media company Pagemasters, which will edit the newspaper's weekend supplements.

The agreement with Telegraph Media Group has Pagemasters sub-editing 150 pages a week out of its Sydney office.

The pages will be created in London and transmitted to Australia for editing, then transmitted back to the UK for publication.

Edward Roussel, Telegraph Media Group digital editor, said the move was necessary to reduce manufacturing and distribution costs.

The company also outsourced its printing duties to Rupert Murdoch-owned News International last year.

Pagemasters, which was acquired by the Australian Associated Press in 2002 -- partly owned by Murdoch's News Corporation, also provides various page-ready listing services to a number of publications in Australia and New Zealand.

Bruce Davidson, managing director of Pagemasters, said: "This is a ground-breaking decision that further establishes Pagemasters as an important part of newspaper editorial production, not just in Australia and New Zealand, but now on a global basis."