Shrink to fit: employee plans to save the Observer

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

After a week of speculation as to the future of the Observer, it seems plans are afoot amongst the paper’s journalists themselves to save the stricken stalwart of the left.

Staff at the world’s oldest Sunday publication are developing ideas to cut costs by slimming the doorstep-sized paper down and incorporating some of the costly magazine sections – including supplements such as the OMM – into the main newspaper.

The staff hope the new idea will stem some of the Observer’s reported £90million hemorrhaging.

Earlier in the week, the Guardian Media Groups’s chief executive Carolyn McCall emailed staff, saying the group was looking at ways to reduce costs, including turning the Observer into a weekly magazine, to be published in midweek, and rebranding the paper the Sunday Guardian.

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