Clarke: News Corp’s election front pages would make British papers ‘blush’
Martin Clarke
Mark Britt
The editor-in-chief and publisher of the biggest English-language news website in the world the Mail Online has said News Corp Australia’s election coverage would have made UK papers “blush”, and the new local operation would not be focussed on “setting the political agenda”.
In a video hangout with Mail Online’s Martin Clarke, Mi9 CEO Mark Britt and Mumbrella editor Alex Hayes talking about the new joint venture between the companies, Clarke declared the Mail Online would have little trouble fitting in with Australian journalistic culture.
Hi Martin and Mark,
Will the editorial team all be new recruits or will some of the staff be drawn across from Ninemsn?
And how and when will you be recruiting those extra staff? I’m very interested and so are a few others I’ve spoken to, so more details please!
Also, what size audience does the DM have in Aus right now and what do you think it might reach with your new venture?
Good luck guys!
Hi guys,
Mumbrella posted an opinion piece a couple of weeks ago about freelancers and remuneration levels, which caused quite a stir.
https://staging.mumbrella.com.au/said-daily-review-188696
Can you describe what opportunities there will be for Freelancers within “Daily Mail Australia” and the remuneration packages that will be entailed? Furthermore, can you both provide your thoughts on the “Exposure” style of “remuneration” that some other media companies have been utilising in Australia and how you think such approaches will influence the industry long term?
Cheers!
Fairfax and Newscorp both run at a massive loss in Australia and have uncertain futures.
Why do you think it makes good business sense to compete in this space? Do you expect one or both of the above to fail in the near future making it easier for your operation?
Interesting to see if they can sustain an editorial team of 50 (!) based on an initial audience of 1m, and is that 1m visits?
Even if it is Visits, let’s do a (generous) x10 to get to a page impressions number, and you get to 10m monthly impressions.
If they sell 100% of those impressions, at a (again, very generous) blended yield of $10cpm, I get $100,000 per month gross, ie before agency commission or any bulk discount rates. That doesn’t seem to me to be enough to pay 50 editorial staff….
So Martin Clarke from the Daily Mail says that the Daily Tele’s front pages during the election campaign would make UK papers blush. Really Martin? This comes from someone involved with the newspaper which ran a front page proclaiming “Give the girl a chance!” endorsing Margaret Thatcher during the 1979 UK election.