Thin

The current edition of Private Eye is excoriating about the new editorial regime at Telegraph Towers. Jason "Mekon" Seiken is making everybody an editor of something, and there are fewer and fewer people around who are actually writing stories.

This doesn't matter so much when you're running print editions with reduced pages (apart from short-changing readers) but is a little more noticeable on the website, particularly at weekends, where you can almost feel the tumbleweed blowing through the wide open spaces.

This may be in part explained by the recent Telegraph ad for a weekend portal editor on a six-month contract, at £100 to £150 per shift, depending on experience. Note: this position is part time, involving working between 4 and 8 weekend shifts per month (a maximum of 16 hours per week unless otherwise agreed.)