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VANITY FAIR EDITOR GOES AFTER 25 YEARS Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is leaving after 25 years. He said he had planned to leave earlier but wanted to be there for the start of the presidency of Donald Trump, someone with whom he had had a fractious professional relationship.


BUYOUT REACHED AT INCISIVE MEDIA Sarah Douglas is the new editor of monthly design and lifestyle magazine Wallpaper – the first female editor of the title. She takes over from Tony Chambers who becomes brand and content director.


NEW DRAMA SET IN A NEWSROOM A new BBC One drama series about journalists at two newspapers will be screened next year. Press is written by Mike Bartlett and directed by Tom Vaughan, who produced Doctor Foster. It will star David Suchet and Charlotte Riley.


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FT chapel ready to strike over gender pay gap Staff agreed they could go


ournalists at the Financial Times voted in favour of industrial action if the


newspaper does not close its gender pay gap. The union said that the pay


gap was 13 per cent – the widest it has been in a decade. The FT’s NUJ chapel said the newspaper should be ashamed if it enters 2020 – the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act – without having closed this gap.


on strike to get the pay gap closed and have requested a series of disclosures on pay from management. The chapel said it was


asking for details of mean and median gross annual earnings of men and women by job title (reporter, correspondent, senior correspondent, assistant editor, deputy editor and editor) and by age, following


the example of the Wall Street Journal. Steve Bird, FoC at the FT,


said: “Companies have had 47 years to fix the gender pay gap and have failed. The FT is not alone in falling short but we believe it should lead the way in bridging this historic gap. “Male and female journalists are united in their anger over this and NUJ members will do whatever it


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MEN HAVE MOST PAGE ONE BYLINES Research by the


en are


dominating front page


bylines on national newspapers, according to a study by Women in Journalism.


group on national papers during a seven-week period in June and July this year found that male journalists had 75 per cent of


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page one bylines. The latest study


shows only a small improvement in the presence of women journalists on the front pages since the last Women in Journalism


takes to achieve genuine transparency and end the pay gap at every level.” The chapel said: “So far,


FT managers appear to have prioritised commercial initiatives over real steps towards pay parity. “And targets for action – including increasing numbers of women in senior jobs and improving female pay averages – have become recast as ambitions.”


research five years ago. Then, women were responsible for 22 per cent of front page stories. The Guardian had the highest concentration of


female bylines on the top stories at 43 per cent, although this figure was probably boosted by the fact that two women are joint political editors. The Daily Mirror


fared the worst at nine per cent.


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