News Corp's Waymouth St headquarters where the Australian's Adelaide bureau is based. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

Media and marketing

News Corp’s latest SA cut

News Corp insists it “remains firmly committed to the people and issues of South Australia”, despite axing the sole remaining reporter in the local bureau of its national broadsheet, The Australian.

News

ABC, News Corp challenge AFP raid warrants

News Corp says it intends to mount a legal challenge over an Australian Federal Police raid on a journalist’s home, as the ABC launches legal action over the police raid on its Sydney headquarters.

 

Local

Your rates are paying News Corp $400k a year – by law

The local government sector is pushing to change an “outdated” state law that sees Adelaide ratepayers pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation millions of dollars in compulsory advertising, in a new blow to the media company’s ailing suburban newspaper stable.

Local

City print run, northern delivery scrapped as News Corp rings changes

News Corp’s flagship suburban masthead in SA, The City, will stop being printed, while home delivery of the weekly Messenger north of Adelaide will cease from this month amid a broader local restructure at the media company that has already claimed at least 10 journalists’ jobs this month.

Opinion

Media raids a threat to journalism and right to know

Australia Federal Police raids on the ABC and a News Corp journalist over publication of classified material have a chilling effect on public interest journalism. Freedom of the press must be defended in the face of toughened national security laws, writes Rebecca Ananian-Welsh.