More jump ship at Mexico City’s English-language newspaper

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Only five of the original 14 people rehired by the new owner of the News, Mexico City’s struggling English-language newspaper, remain on the job. In the last few days, nine more employees have left the paper.

Brian Rausch was the most recent editor of the daily after the dismissal of Malcolm Beith earlier this month. Rausch departed Wednesday along with four other people, and three others left on Monday. Of the five remaining and original employees, only two are native English speakers.

Beith was the first to sit in the editor’s chair after the News was sold by its former owner Victor Hugo O’Farill to Grupo Mac at the beginning of June.

The latest developments at the News do not bode well for the paper, which for the last two weeks has relied even more heavily on wire reports and translated copy from other Grupo Mac titles to fill its pages.

Today’s front page story in the Mexico City daily is a New York Times wire story about how the U.S needs a new financial system.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City