Opinion
News Corp’s decision to take the axe to regional and community newspapers shows just how vulnerable Australian journalism has become to Rupert Murdoch’s New York-based empire, argue Peter Fray and Eric Beecher.
News
News Corp’s attempt to sell its regional and community titles – which include the Messenger newspapers in Adelaide – has failed, with the media giant now looking at “alternative structures” for its Australian newspaper group.
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The local government sector is pushing to change an “outdated” state law that sees Adelaide ratepayers pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation millions of dollars in compulsory advertising, in a new blow to the media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.
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.
SPECIAL REPORT | Cuts and closures loom for News Corp SA’s suburban weekly Messenger Newspapers, after the media company unsuccessfully lobbied several metropolitan councils for hundreds of thousands of ratepayer dollars to help prop up the ailing brand, warning continued publishing is “at risk”, InDaily can reveal.
News Corp Australia has confirmed a new round of redundancies from its Adelaide operation which produces The Advertiser, Sunday Mail and Messenger newspapers.
