Evening Standard sacks 2 critics ‘to save money’
mainWhen I joined the Evening Standard as Assistant Editor in 2002, the first part of my mission was to build London’s strongest team of critics and arts writers.
For a while, we led the field.
After six years, attrition set in. The paper was sold to a Russian KGB muppet, became a freesheet and finally hired a failed politician (pictured) as editor.
Yesterday, it fired the last two theatre critics – Fiona Mountford and Henry Hitchings – supposedly to save money.
Barry Millington, the classical critic, has not been contacted about his future.
The Standard with no standards. Does anyone still read this fishwrap?
It’s good for periodic pictures of Larry the Cat outside Downing Street – that’s about it.
It was a magnificent job yours, Norman.
Thank you, Luis!
I only read the sport pages.
Pre-internet, people mainly used to buy that paper for the job ads and flats for rent, didn’t they?
It’s a free evening newspaper….
It’s only been free since 2009.
Not at all. It was an excellent newspaper with first-rate arts coverage. It was only when the gangsters took over that the quality went awol.
No, that was LOOT.
Osborne has r
Osborne has ruined that paper
Osborne is doing to The Standard what he did to the country when he was Chancellor. The sackings make a mockery of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Or are they also being axed?