Interesting that the pagination in today’s Australian follows that of the (London) Times. Instead of the traditional National, World, Opinion, Lifestyle, Business, Sport section order, today’s edition is National, Lifestyle, Opinion, World, Business, Sport.
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I’ve discontinued my subscriptions to The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. They tried to talk me into a half price Telegraph subscription but I declined.
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Niki Savva is joining The Age and SMH. Her first column will appear on Thursday, August 5.
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The Daily Telegraph have dropped Alan Jones’ weekly column. They say that he doesn’t resonate with the public.
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Gee, if The Daily Telegraph has dropped Alan Jones then how long will Sky News keep him?
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I’ve read that his contract with Sky News expires at the end of November and negotiations are expected to begin next week. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sky doesn’t renew his contract, and he returns to some form of radio in 2022.
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He’s at the bottom of the ratings list for linear, and his numbers on social media compared to the other commentators aren’t that flash either.
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Unfortunately his videos on YouTube seems to be really popular with right-wing lunatics, particularly from America. Until that decreases Sky will probably keep him there.
If only he could go back to radio and especially the extremely obscure 2SM so less will be exposed to him.
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An internal memo seen by CBD says the company’s broadsheet flagship The Australian will lose 10 positions, six from NSW and four from Victoria, while Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph will lose two positions and the company’s news network will lose three positions.
Ten positions will go from the company’s regional and community divisions including jobs in Geelong, Hobart, regional Queensland, northern NSW and South Australia.
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Daily Telegraph reporter Georgia Clark is in a Sydney hospital, suffering from a rare heart muscle inflammation from her second Pfizer jab.
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According to The Australian, regional titles Sunshine Coast Daily and The Mackay Daily Mercury will resume their print version this Friday (August 27), more than a year after they stopped printing and became online only.
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The perils of constructing your online articles around tweets 
Read the whole thread.
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This was bound to happen when they reported it yesterday and people had a meltdown in the comments about how diversity isn’t needed for three year olds and that people in these racist households will no longer be watching the wiggles.
News Corp readers are deranged and unhinged lunatics that even stoop so low as to turn children’s programs into an ideological debate.
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Yes, but that’s not what I was getting at.
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Spectacular own goal from News Corp. Shutting down papers in single paper markets was such a ridiculous decision.
News Corp probably has a bigger headcount in regional Qld than the ABC and does an excellent job in small communities. But their consultants didn’t understand that what people were reading was the newspaper, not the Burdekin Advocate or Daily Mercury. The brand wasn’t important, it was the method. Even reducing a daily to a weekly would have been smarter than just shutting up print.
So now, when you want to read the news in the Burdekin or Mackay or Rockhampton you pick up an independent newspaper (that is usually far more right wing btw and in some cases even owned by Adani). But what you don’t do is open a rubbish digital version of your old paper hidden away in the Courier Mail’s website.
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