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The local government sector is pushing to change an “outdated” state law that sees Adelaide ratepayers pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation millions of dollars in compulsory advertising, in a new blow to the media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.
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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.
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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.
In this week’s column, big changes are coming for News Corp’s suburban newspaper network in Adelaide with titles to be merged and home deliveries cut back, and the Press Council finds against some particularly pointed SA coverage of the power crisis.
