hopeforthebest wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:Sympathetic to anyone who loses their job.
Selvey had become contaminated by his affiliations. His lurking menace below the line made the Guardian a bit of an unpleasant place to be. And he's told his stories once too many times. He was a good reporter and a great commentator once.
Maybe he's lost his job for reasons other than cricket, may have been an ardent Brexit supporter and gloated at the referendum result jut once too often. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
Could be with Guardian being an labour and in general remain newspaper although doubt it unless selvey broke rules for promoting political stuff in social media.
Guessing it is more of Selvey wage demands and not really needing 2 correspondents and decided he had to go.
Arthur will know more considering he reads the paper but don't they mostly use freelance people seen Tim Wigmore and the female journalist,that I forgotten the name off write for them before.
Using freelance staff is far more cheaper than using Selvey, plus Selvey is losing their current cricket readers which would have been a factor.
TBH a lot of cricket writers will lose jobs considering 10 yrs ago all the major papers had 3-5 cricket correspondents and now the papers could only really afford one or two.
the guy likely to replace Selvey got sacked from the Sun and TBH he probably deserves the promotion now considering he been the deputy correspondent doing small jobs for papers for close to 10 years now.
Although they been loads of job losses in times can't remember many changing careers or being out of the journalistic world many just moved to other papers or websites and I am sure Selvey will find work again.
Edit I hope Selvey coping ok with it since it looks like the news has hit him hard, his daughter literally joined twitter to wish him well which is very odd really.