Call me weird, but I miss the added hoopla the Tele did for the State of Origin.
Usually you’d get some sort of pull-out/pull-off/lift-out with a poster and indepth coverage - didn’t happen today. More attention given to two old farts in a battle to rule over a backwards country, a horse race, finance and whatever Guilty Gladys the Koala Killer is doing today. And even on the back page, more on a horse race and one pissy column!
Lift your game Tele!
And yes, I am being sarcastic about descriptions over what was on the front and back. Move on.
The hashtag BoycottWoolworths is trending on social media this morning, after Woolworths revealed that it is supporting News Corp’s Thanks a Million program, which recognises people and groups in the community who have been helping others during last summer’s bushfires or COVID-19.
At this morning’s first quarter results, News Corp revealed that the closure or transition to digital of certain regional and community newspapers in Australia cost the company US$35 million. Revenue at News Corp Australia was down 20% from the same period last year mainly due to COVID-19.
The number of digital subscribers at News Corp Australia’s mastheads as of September 30, 2020 were 685,200, compared to 542,400 last year.
Herald Sun revealed today that one of its senior sports journalists, Leo Schlink, is leaving the paper to take up a media role with the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Schlink had been with the paper since 1997 covering mostly tennis, cycling and horse racing. His last day at work was at Flemington yesterday, the final day of Melbourne Cup carnival.
EDIT 9/11: Schlink will be replaced by colleague Gilbert Gardiner in the racing team.
A Nine website explaining what media properties are owned by Rupert Murdoch.
I noticed a couple missing. News UK owns the radio stations TalkRADIO, TalkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio, and some local stations in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The article states that News owns HarperCollins book publishing. But what is not well known, I think, and what the article fails to mention, is that HarperCollins own Zondervan which is one of the largest Christian publishers in the world. They own the US rights to publish the NIV which is the largest selling Bible in the world, publish various popular Christian authors, and own Bible Gateway which is a popular website and app.
Still seems a bit odd that there’s exclusivity to a version of the Bible (though given the NIV wasn’t around until the 1970s, perhaps that’s not a surprise after all).
The article notably also glosses over the HT&E stake in favour of “Rupert Murdoch is a shareholder in some radio stations” and dumping a mention of HT&E in ‘other assets’ section. Not that ownership stakes automatically lead to control, but the Murdochs having hands in two of the four/five major commercial radio networks is significant nonetheless.
