In an effort to further (sic) improve their product and offer the best quality of journalism to their valuable readers, The Nassau Guardian on Thursday moved ahead with implementing its improvement and development plan for the company.
The 'development' plan has regrettably resulted in the termination of 19 employees.
Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of The Nassau Guardian Charles Carter said the improvement and development plan, which began two-and-a half years ago, entails a combination of editorial training, an upgrade of all operating systems and offering more exposure to talented members of staff who would be able to move the paper forward. "We just took the opportunity through an audit of all the functions here at The Nassau Guardian to make a determination of who we thought could help the paper go forward. And as a result, there were redundancies. In all, it amounted to 19 individuals who we have compensated well and we wish the best of luck."
The main redundancies were in the IT department. An evaluation of the talents in the Circulation, Editorial and Advertising departments were conducted by the company and also resulted in redundancies.
According to Mr Carter, the improvement and development plan implemented by The Guardian will also involve training abroad and locally.
"We have four people away now who are members of staff in training and it is hoped to really improve the newspaper industry, which is changing, especially when one looks now at who is reading the newspaper and where the markets are," Mr Carter added.
"We are not only trying to produce the best local paper on the daily basis, but we are also very mindful of what we have on our web site because over a million people are reading our paper everyday [via the Web], so it is causing us to focus our direction on those areas where there is the greatest potential."
[Bahamas B2B Editor's Note: We believe Mr. Carter meant that his paper received over one-million HITS per day, not one million visitors. To our knowledge, no website in The Bahamas receives one million visitors per day.]
Source: The Nassau Guardian
