Opinion
South Australia’s media landscape is being rapidly diminished by recession, pandemic and the digital impact on advertising revenue. That’s bad news for the state’s culture, conversation and a healthy democracy, but don’t expect government to back diversity, argues Eric Beecher.
Media and marketing
Australia’s newswire, AAP, has a compelling case for government funding, the head of the nation’s competition watchdog says.
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James Murdoch, former chief executive of 21st Century Fox and son of Rupert Murdoch, has resigned from the News Corp board of directors because of “disagreements over certain editorial content” published by the company’s news outlets.
Redundancies are looming at the ABC in Adelaide and a new round of job cuts is underway at News Corp’s local operations.
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 Corp has officially killed off its free Messenger community newspapers in South Australia, which will now only be available online behind a paid subscriber paywall as part of a national digital push that will axe more than 100 print titles and an undisclosed number of jobs across the nation.
