News Limited merges Fox Sports and metro online sports desks

Campbell Reid

News Limited is merging its digital sports reporting teams from its metropolitan newspaper network with Fox Sports to create one division based at Fox Sports’ Sydney headquarters.

In an email sent to staff today, editorial director Campbell Reid said the move would see the teams merge into a “single sports editorial team”, led by Alex Brown, and “a single product team, led by Ben Kimber”.

Reid’s statement said: “News’ acquisition of Fox Sports gives us a tremendous opportunity to combine the sporting expertise from across the teams and turbo-charge quality content for consumers across mobile, tablet and web.