Harding’s Observer in Internal Turmoil Amid Front Page Image Fail – Guido Fawkes

Harding’s Observer in Internal Turmoil Amid Front Page Image Fail

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The Observer has deployed another stinker in its second Sunday print outing. A blurred front page…

The wraparound front page picture of women with Farage was extremely low resolution and the focal point – Farage – is extended onto the back page. This was followed by strange multicolouration inside the paper itself. Did all the layout and photo editors quit?

Guido hears from Observer insiders that print subscriptions are so far significantly lower than expected – the plan is to give physical Observer editions to the fewer-than-10,000 Tortoise Media subscribers. Expect to see the Observer and Tortoise come even closer together. Tie two sinking ships to one another…

An Observer source tells Guido: “No one with any marketing nous remains. No one with any digital experience.” Is the lefty new media activist site Tortoise about to sink the 200 year old observer?