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November 24, 2008

Big job, puny pay packet at Digital Spy

By Axegrinder

When magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK acquired Digital Spy in April, many wondered if the entertainment news website – set up by Neil Wilkes and James Welch in 2000 – would lose its quirky charm.

Well, the site now boasts ‘over 80 million monthly page impressions and a unique audience reach of 5.4 million (October 2008)’and is clearly a very big player.

But despite now being part of a corporate giant – Hachette Filipacchi UK is itself a subsidiary of global media organisation Lagardere Active – some things are still decidedly small-scale.

Digital Spy is currently advertising for Big Brother reporters to work eight-hour shifts during the four-week run of Channel 4’s reality TV show. The job ad warns: ‘Due to the nature of the series, the work rota comprises shifts around the clock, every day of the week.”

The pay? From £50 to £65 per full shift.

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