THE PAY OF EDITORS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4806, 4 June 1884, Page 2

THE PAY OF EDITORS.

When Mr -Details undertook the editorial charge of the London Times he was paid £4000. Mr Buckle, the new editor of that journal, a young man of thirty, without any previous experience, commences his official term on, an annual stipend of £SCOO. Mr Edward Lnveson, the editor of the London Telegraph, is its owner, and so is not on a salary, but , the two senior editors of that journal, Mr Edward Arnold and Mr J. M. Le . Sage, receive each a salary of £5000. ' The Standard, which is next in circulation of the gre*t London dailies to the Telegraph, does not pay as : well as its mighty rival, for its editor, Mr Mumford, gets only £3000 per annum. The Daily News, the organ of English Liberate and the third in circulation of the English metropolitan journals, pays to its editor the extremely comfortable yearly salary of £4030. The editor of the Manchester Guardian, certainly the most powerful and influential country newspaper (meaning outside of London) in England, pays its chief editor £3000, and two members of its staff, who write only four articles a week, £1500. Mr' Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette.^ gets £2000, and the leading writer of that journal, Mr Milner, is paid at the rate of £1600 yearly. He is a young J man, and amuses himself with literary, ',. work, which he need not do if he does';.., not care to, as he possesses an indepen- '•' dent income from a very large fortune.

Some of the weeklies of London pay very handsomely. Mr Hut ton, who is at. the ' head of the Spectator, gets £2000. Mr ' Pollock, of the Saturday KevJew, receives the same sum as his confrere of the Spectator, and Mr Frederick Greenwood, who steers the St. James Gazette through the tortuous maze of English politics, .; gets for doing it £800, while Mr F. C. Burnand, who not only edits Punch, but writes its sharp Parliamentary criticisms, receipts £3,00Q;a-year for his double duty. Besides the regular staff of the great dailies there are, always at« tached to each of them several outside contributors, who have certain special lines of information. For example : Mr Charles Marvin, who knows more about Central Asia and the Turcoman tribes in theMerv Oasis than anybody else in England since the death of poor Donovan, writes the articles which have lately appeared in the London "Times " on this subject. Just now England wants, to know all about that curious region, as Eussia is pushing its way to India by the Merv route, and, therefore Mi 1 Mavin's years of gathered knowledge can now be utilised to his very great pecuniary advantage. Mr Archi« bald Forbes's slashing artiVes on the Egyptian war in •• the journal of the largest liberal circulation in the world," as the"News" proudly denominates itself, are admirable in the matter of criticism, although he has no personal knowledge of the region in which General Graham's troops are meeting with such, an obstinate resistance. ;