Phil Rothfield returned to write his regular column in The Sunday Telegraph today after a four-week leave. Phil wrote News Corp’s investigation concluded that his reporting had not been compromised by his relationship with controversial punter Eddie Hayson. Phil added that he would continue his column until after the NRL Grand Final on October 2, after which he would take another long holiday.
Comedian Em Rusciano has revealed she will stop writing her weekly column for News Corp as the result of a “unkind clickbait headline” of an article last week on her appearance on Seven’s The Big Music Quiz, which has yet gone to air. The headline quoted host Darren McMullen as saying that Rusciano was “a nightmare to work with”. She wrote on her website that she had been on the brink of burnout for a few months, but the headline left her devastated.
Em Rusciano wrote on her website:
“It was apparently said in jest, he’d meant that I was a hilarious nightmare or something to that effect.”
See ya later Em, and your crappy articles. She is as guilty of writing inflammatory click-baity type shit as anyone.
Former editor of The Australian Chris Mitchell from his new book Making Headlines: Close encounters with Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/close-encounters-with-kevin-rudd-and-tony-abbott/news-story/71cd2b19f5f5deba3694902d5e3e149e
The excerpt is a very dry read. I’ll pass on reading the rest.
ACCC clears Seven West’s acquisition of West Australian media outlets
The ACCC has cleared Seven West’s (SWM) acquisition of The Sunday Times newspaper and the Perth.now.com.au website from News Limited.
News Corp Australia agreed in May to sell The Sunday Times and its PerthNow website to Seven West Media for a price believed to be in the range of $12-$15 million.
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PerthNow currently shows clips from Nine News. When Seven West Media formally buys PerthNow and The Sunday Times, that relationship will have to end. Will Nine News provide clips to Fairfax’s WAToday though?
The Australian is now available to Australian subscribers of Apple News at about the same as a current digital subscription to the paper, about $8 per week.
If they can come to a commercial agreement, sure why not.
News Digital Networks Australia’s managing director Nicole Sheffield has announced that Felicity Harley will join News DNA in January 2017 as editor of the company’s new female content platform which will launch early next year. Harley joins from Pacific Magazines where she was editor of Women’s Health for nine years.
Former media editor for The Australian Sharri Markson is joining The Daily Telegraph as national political editor, replacing Simon Benson who has been in the current role since 2010. Benson has been poached by The Australian itself. Markson previously covered political news as Canberra correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph.
As if we needed another reason not to read the Daily Telegraph.
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News Corp has bought horse racing blog Punters.com.au and accompanying sports odds comparison site BestOdds for an undisclosed sum. Punters.com.au CEO and founder Luc Pettett and COO Heath Kilgour will remain in their positions, with the editorial team also staying on.
Mamamia editor-in-chief Kate de Brito will return to News Corp in January 2017 to become new editor-in-chief of news.com.au, replacing Daniel Sankey who will move into a new role to identify and develop growth opportunities in digital sport and the company’s expanding wagering information space. de Brito was the former news editor of news.com.au.
Adam Boland is to become head of online video at News Corp and will also work for the Sky News Weather channel, reports The Australian.
The NT News today became the first of six regional papers to introduce the freemium subscription model. It is similar to the packages available on The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and The Advertiser but with the inclusion of free delivery of weekend papers.
A paywall will also be introduced on the websites of Townsville Bulletin, Geelong Advertiser, Gold Coast Bulletin, The Cairns Post and The Hobart Mercury.
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The News Corp Australia website correctly, I think, refers to the four Tasmanian and Northern Territorian papers as metro not regional as they are based in the capital cities Hobart and Darwin. I wonder why the story you sourced this from has downgraded them to regional??
Probably because those areas are classed as regional for radio and TV.
PANPA - Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association - categorises NT News as regional when they have their awards.
Interesting, I know Darwin is small compared to the “big 5”, but still. It’s a capital city. It’s 200 thousand people. It has different TV and radio stations from the rest of the NT.
It seems to tick a lot of the boxes for being a capital city… unless it’s because the NT is a territory and not a state?