An Angling Times junior reporter has been suspended following the scrapping of an entire print run causing the paper to be distributed a day late.
The reporter, writing about the Disabled World Angling Championships, used a slang word concerning the disabled that was considered ‘inappropriate’. The word was not picked up by the sub-editors who check for such errors.
As a result the entire 85,000 print run was recalled and scrapped. Several hundred copies did reach newsagent’s shelves but were immediately recalled and replaced.
A spokesman for Angling Times said the mistake happened because the team were relatively new to the Sunday shift.
An internal inquiry has been mounted and the reporter suspended.
More details here: www.pressgazette.co.uk
