News Corp unifies metro newspaper business sections under Business Daily masthead
News Corp is unifying its metro title’s business sections under the masthead of Business Daily, with each of the papers able to access national content from other News Corp brands to complement local, state content.
The section will see each of the papers, including The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and The Advertiser, able to draw on syndicated national content from News Corp brands such as The Australian Business Review and Business Spectator.
Through Business Daily the metro mastheads will have access to around 70 unlocked articles a day from The Australian.
They will also have access to content from News Corp contributors including Terry McCrann, Nick Tabakoff (business editor-at-large The Daily Telegraph), Scott Pape (The Barefoot Investor), Kirstie Spicer (Brightday) and John Beveridge (In the Black).
Business Daily was the name of a rival to the AFR. It was planned in late 1986 and began publication in early 1987 right in the middle of the media takeover frenzy. Published by Herald and Weekly Times which had been taken over by Murdoch by the time the first copy came out. By the end of 1987 Murdoch had killed it off and beefed up the business section of The Australian. Ironic that News Corp has now renamed its business division after a newspaper they killed off 28 years ago.
Isn’t Tabakoff a PR at the CBA these days?