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December 17, 2018updated 30 Sep 2022 7:15am

Reach only uses own titles to set ‘market rate’ in pay rise offer while sport journalists face newsroom move

By Freddy Mayhew

Mirror, Express and Star publisher Reach is setting market rates only according to its own portfolio of newspapers in pay rise negotiations with a journalists’ union, Press Gazette has learned.

The publisher has offered a two per cent pay rise to members of the Reach Bargaining Group, led by alternative journalists’ union the British Association of Journalists.

The rise, which has been recommended by the BAJ to the group’s roughly 300 members, is capped at £1,500 per person – although only editorial staff paid £75,000 a year would hit that limit.

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