News Corp axes more editorial roles as it continues to cut costs
News Corp has axed a number of editorial roles across mastheads The Australian, Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph, the AFR reports.
A story this morning said the redundancies, of which there could be up to 30, are a mix of voluntary and forced. The decision affects a number of production staff, who will leave News Corp and join Australian Associated Press subsidiary Pagemasters as sub-editors.
Jobs have been axed at The Australian, The Herald Sun and The Daily Telegraph, according to the AFR
They got the Iraq war wrong.
They got the GFC and economics wrong.
They got Tony Abbott wrong (to be fair he used to work there so they probably wanted to do their mate a favour)
They are getting climate change wrong.
I wonder why times are tough?
To paraphrase Denis Leary how do we live in a world where News have fired this many journalists but the man who wrote the piece of editorial bullying about Denise Shrivel still has a job?
#lurch
I hate their editorial. But, I think its probably the only thing keeping them afloat, because if they try and claim the centre, their core readership will puke and stop subscribing, and people like me won’t subscribe because I won’t believe they really shifted.
The OZ has made its bed of nails and now has to lie on it, but we’d be stupid to assume left leaning press in Australia is any safer because they’re shedding staff. Fairfax is stuffed. Morry Schwartz is too busy in a niche. Guardian is doing fine, but the model is different, there is no paper copy. Whats left? Has News flogged Quest yet?
If they really want to save money, sacking half the editorial Goebbels would do more: It’s repetitive and they back each other up to the hilt so its kinda redundant anyway right now. You only really want one big liar, not a tribe of them. Maybe Ergas can pull the trigger for rupert, he must be used to economic rationalism.