News Corp Australia


Homepage looks broken today

Working fine for me.

Tonight The Daily Telegraph published online an apology to businessman Dr Chau Chak Wing, which was republished on other News Corp websites such as Herald Sun.
The apology reads:

On April 10 we published an article about Dr Chau Chak Wing.

We do not suggest there has been any wrongdoing on the part of Dr Chau.

We acknowledge Dr Chau is a businessman and philanthropist, and we apologise to him for any hurt and embarrassment suffered by reason of publication of the article.

Walkley-award winning journalist Ellen Whinnett is joining The Australian as associate editor. In her current role of News Corp Network’s investigations editor she broke the story on ANOM sting operation by Australian Federal Police and FBI last year. She also co-wrote Lisa Curry’s memoir which was published recently.

KommunityTV launches with an impressive offering of sport content from this weekend. This includes Australia’s premier junior invitational basketball tournament, the National Junior Classic, as well as the Judo Australia National Championships, Victorian junior country soccer championships and the Netball SA Country Championships.

The sport streaming service will continue to grow News Corp Australia’s season-long partnerships with the AFL NAB League, NRL Schoolboys Cup, Queensland School Sport Rugby League, Victorian Netball League, Southern Football League, Netball SA Premier League and SANFL.

An exciting list of new content will also be rolled out over the second half of 2022.

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Aaaaand of course it’s behind a paywall… :roll_eyes:

Even News Corp has bills and staff to pay

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This is so stupid… They could easily put there community sport on kayo and offer it via Kayo freebies.

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News Corp has signed a new deal with Qantas to provide free digital copies of The Australian instead, available while passengers are in airport lounges and on domestic flights. It means however there will be no more print copies of the paper available at Qantas lounges and departure gates (they were available under the previous deal between the two companies, which ended in 2020 when COVID pandemic hit).

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Jade will replace the present incumbent Tom Minear, who has been appointed the new US correspondent for News Corp papers.

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There must have been a shuffle of the deckchairs - Clare Armstrong got a promotion too to National Political Editor

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Interesting article. No mention of print sales and subscriptions. Foxtel decline hidden by Kayo and Binge. Zero mention of Flash (minuscule surely). Mumbrella would do well to dig deeper in reporting season.

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29k, 11k paid

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Mediaweek has some details on the results for News Corp’s Australian papers:
Revenues at News Corp Australia increased 6% in the last quarter and 9% for the full financial year.
The company contributed $165 million to the segment EBITDA growth.
Closing digital subscribers at News Corp Australia as of June 30, 2022 were 964,000 (882,000 for news mastheads), compared to 859,000 (810,000 for news mastheads) in the prior year.

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I am not sure if News Corp is scrapping the political cartoons as drawn by the likes of Mark Knight and Warren Brown in the state-based papers every day, or the syndication of Ginger Meggs and overseas cartoons such as Garfield and Hagar.

If it is the former, is News Corp trying to avoid controversy on some of the topics the cartoonists covered in the past?

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