‘People will regrettably leave our business’: News Corp dumps editors, restructures publishing teams
News Corp has announced sweeping staff cuts and major restructures, with executive chairman Michael Miller confirming a number of people will leave the business.
However, despite rumours these redundancies will be made on Friday, News Corp has shot down the speculation, calling it “incorrect”.
“A number of roles will change and some impacted people will regrettably leave our business,” Miller said in an email to staff on Wednesday.
I hear there is more to come – poor behaviour that would make Nine’s board blush has finally been called out…
What is this, March 2020?!
It seems crazy that Lisa Muxworthy has been booted for an aging print guy, who by all accounts is a good operator but the main thing going for him is that Michael Miller likes him.
I feel bad for everyone else who has to wait two weeks to figure out whether or not they have a job.
What about the sales team? Will Danny still take me out to lunch?
I hope that bald strategy guy in Melbourne is ok
Here we go again. Me plus other hundreds lined up like sheep to the slaughter. Started a decade ago.
I don’t understand the logic here. Print media has been declining for years and has had numerous chances to enhance its offerings. Yet, the editor of one of our few growing news channels was the one to be let go?
Because no one seems to be able to answer .. what season does a Sycamore tree shed it’s leaves? Is it autumn?
News doesn’t do redundancies on Fridays. They will want people off the books for July 1, so they have until Tuesday to do that.
Of course News Corp leads the charge in replacing editors with AI.
It’s no coincidence that this comes immediately after their plans to use AI to generate content were made public.
Sounds like a lot of deck chairs being swapped around on the Titanic
All the HR office doors will be slamming shut every 20 mins.
It’s absolutely fascinating how some of the people at News are like cockroaches, consistently surviving nuclear fallout again and again…especially one of the newer additions to the Australian’s executive team. Some really interesting stories about that one. The Australian is so keen to point the finger at 7 and 9, but it should probably look inward first.