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RUSBRIDGER AND HIS SECRETARIES

Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, has attracted a fair amount of comment for the generous salary he is paid, and for the £175,000 bonus he received at a time when his paper is, frankly, struggling. The suggestion is that he is becoming a bit grand, rather too much the sort of fat cat that his paper likes to criticise.

Now I notice that the Guardian is advertising for an 'assistant PA to the editor', Mr Rusbridger apparently requiring not one, but two, secretaries, a level of staffing that I have previously only observed in the chief executives of very large companies - and even then it looked rather like an ego-driven indulgence, rather than a necessity.
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    • 2 comments:

    4:57 PM
    Anonymous said...

    Cheap jibe - any hack knows the amount of crap that comes through an editor's office, and I bet the Guardian gets more than most. Wanna bet that kelner at the Indy has pretty good support as well??

    5:05 PM
    simonh said...

    No idea about Kelner but on all the nationals I worked on, a single PA seemed to suffice. Equally, at reasonably large companies (1000 or so employees) that I'm familiar with,
    chief execs have jut the one.

    Anyway, doesn't the Guardian have a Readers' Editor to deal with the correspondence from the hoi polloi?

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