Therese Rein asking for more people at News Corp to be sacked.
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Difference is ABC gets guaranteed government funding which has no correlation to commercial pressures in print/broadcast media. The commercial players are reliant on real revenue to survive. They can only go down so far before drastic decisions have to be made.
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Sad.
It appears that the independently owned Canterbury-Bankstown Torch, Auburn Review, and Inner West Times are still being printed. I hope they can continue.
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All three of those titles are owned by the Condell Park-based Torch Publishing so a small group, but definitely independent from the major players.
Of course, I also hope they (and any other independent suburban newspapers out there, such as Penrithâs Western Weekender) can continue publishing long into the future.
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They were great newsagencies, where you could buy the interstate papers. I picked the pattern of their location and would seek them out when in capital cities.
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Was it always a free daily paper? Never a cover price? Why?
Interesting that the population of Toowoomba Regional Council is much less than half of the wider Sunshine Coast (Noosa Shire & Sunshine Coast Council) yet circulation in 2020 appears larger. The Sunshine Coast Daily has suffered a sharp decline in fortunes in the last decade.
Sadly suffered decades of mismanagement from APN, keen cost cutters, not interested in true local newspaper businesses. One only had to compare and contrast a thriving independent newspaper with an APN/Rural Press or News regional paper to see the difference.
Out of a state population of 5.172 million, even without Brisbane, this is a small market share.
All he did was regurgitate the media release. It was a poor interview, nothing new was gleaned.
And for smaller areas. It will happen and News will be shown up. APNâs relatively new Yandina based printing press will likely lie idle? Same in Warwick.
Therese Rein is, as often, uninformed and incorrect. Thankfully, her influence has shrunk dramatically.
Iâm sure they will. Independently owned and managed titles will likely be more successful now.
Indeed, especially with many regional areas with older populations, less equitable access to internet connectivity and other factors. Physical newspapers are essential.
@Techster, I hope you have moved on to successful employment beyond the APN chapter of your career. Best wishes to all who have been or about to be displaced and looking for a new job.
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Thanks @crankymedia! 
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The Manly Daily was free for as long as I can remember. But perhaps it was a paid publication early on?
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@littlegezzybear thank you.
More cost cutting at News Corp.
The Whimn content will now be housed within Body + Soul.
Stellar is a glossy magazine while Body + Soul is a tabloid size liftout. Will the new look Stellar remain the glossy look?
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Seems like it will judging by this line in the Mumbrella article you linked to:
The new, combined, magazine will launch in July.
At the moment, selected content from Stellar are published in U on Sunday magazine (inserted in Sunday Mail in Queensland) or the Sunday section at the back of Sunday Mail in SA. The introduction of the new-look Stellar in both states will cause content changes at the two papers. Could U on Sunday be forced to close to make way for Stellar?
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News Corp Australia will slash dozens of roles in its metropolitan and national newsrooms as it attempts to simplify its operations to counter a slump in advertising.
Staff at The Daily Telegraph in Sydney and The Herald Sun in Melbourne were told on Tuesday that production and editorial would be syndicated across multiple newspapers, resulting in dozens of job losses. National masthead The Australian will also undergo âa small numberâ of redundancies in the next few weeks, but is unlikely to share its news content with the city mastheads.
Seems like News Corp will perhaps be relying on the news wire service theyâre establishing when it comes to national content for their newspapers
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Thatâs incorrect. A small number of business and sports reports from The Australian have been republished in the Herald Sun for the past few months. In return, a small number of articles from Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph and The Courier-Mail appear on sports section of The Australian each day.
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Among the changes, News Corp will establish a specialised sports newsroom.
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Facebook has responded to the government, ACCC and the Australian mediaâs expectation that they pay hundreds of millions of dollars per year to the media companies for news content. Facebook say they will not be paying.
In an editorial in The Australian today News Corp rejects Facebookâs stance ⌠while placing social media share buttons on the editorial so News Corpâs content can be shared to Facebook and Facebookâs WhatsApp, and Twitter. As Facebook points out in its submission, publishers actively encourage readers to share links to their content on Facebook. Yet they complain that itâs shared on Facebook.
They they literally paying the commercial channels to produce dedicated Facebook news bulletins.
They obviously see some value in paying for their content, just not when it suits them.
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