Toronto Star outsources copy editing

[dfisher]

Eliminating its desk and handing over the work to Pagemasters North America. Seventy-eight jobs cut.

At least the work is staying inside "journalism." Pagemasters is owned by Canadian Press. As to whether Pagemasters hires more and at what terms, no info on that.

From the crazy idea bin: Maybe ACES should set up a for-profit editing subsidiary. At least that way we'd have a shot ...