Interesting choice given he’s a doper.
Not words I’d associate with James lol
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Ten of the (20 editorial) staff would be taking voluntary redundancies.
Titles affected include The Courier Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Hobart Mercury, Adelaide Advertiser and News Corp’s free news and lifestyle division, which includes the news.com.au website. Managers emailed staff on Tuesday evening to set up meetings about the decision.
Of the 20 layoffs, more will come from The Daily Telegraph than any other paper.
Five roles, three of which are voluntary redundancies, will come from News Corp’s production staff including subeditors.
Former associate editor for the weekend Telegraph Sarah Blake is also set to return as national editor for Network News on July 21, according to an internal email seen by this masthead. Blake returns from Seven’s new digital masthead The Nightly, where she spent four months as chief correspondent.
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The Australian and Prestige titles have unveiled a new leadership team to drive the next phase of audience and commercial growth, led by managing director and publisher Nicholas Gray and editor-in-chief Michelle Gunn.
Sophie Raptis has been appointed general manager, commercial for The Australian and Prestige Titles. Raptis returns to the Australian market to join the business in this new role and will be responsible for driving revenue growth and partnerships across the portfolio.
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How amusing in The Age article:
“Third-party provider MediaHub, which manages the playout services for Sky News, suffered a hardware failure that impacted the Sky News channel. The technical issue was investigated and resolved in just over an hour,” a Sky News Australia spokesperson said.”
Really is the 2SM Super Network of TV.
Would FTA stations have such lax agreements with Mediahub to be off air for over an hour in prime time?
The decreasing cost of broadcast hardware should be meaning more redundancy and less of these embarrassing outages. Instead, Mediahub proves itself again as letting down clients.
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A year after Murdoch’s South Australian tabloid, the Advertiser, largely boycotted the Adelaide Fringe festival after a sponsorship arrangement broke down, the News Corp paper has told arts critics their articles are no longer needed.
The founding chair of the Adelaide Critics Circle, Samela Harris, said the decision was “a severe body blow to the arts in South Australia”.
Adelaide theatre, music and opera critics received emails from the Advertiser saying the paper will no longer be running arts reviews: “This email is to give you 30 days notice.”
The editor of the Advertiser, Gemma Jones, said reviews written by staff and contributors would still be published but reviews which had “very small online audiences” had been cut.
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This means that smaller websites such as Glam Adelaide, and InDaily will be the only ones to have proper coverage of SA arts (apart from major shows and artists, etc).
Comes after ABC Radio Adelaide dropped it’s weekly hour long Smart Arts program on Sunday mornings, following Peter Goers leaving the ABC.
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There’s Radio National for that sort of thing, to be fair. Arts are very niche.
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AFR reports that News Corp national health reporter Sue Dunlevy is finishing up this week after 36 years at the publisher, as part of the recent redundancy. Also, News Corp has axed the role of national weekend political editor, but there are moves to keep James Campbell (who currently has the role) at the company.
UPDATE 26/7
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Has been made redundant too.
Apparently he’s being employed as Dutton’s 2025 election strategist 
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A black-tie dinner was held at The Australian Museum in Sydney earlier tonight to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Australian. The paper’s founder Rupert Murdoch didn’t attend but his son Lachlan did, and made a major speech.
EDIT:
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I didn’t know the Herald Sun journalists were on strike too… whoever designed today’s front page doesn’t know how to correctly use “apostrophe’s”.
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Not on strike, just illiterate.
Jokes aside it was probably had nothing to do with a journalist. Maybe a sub editor who you’d think having a basic grasp of grammar would be a key criteria for the job.
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Journalists who failed basic English.
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And who knew Kyle Sandilands was a swimmer. 
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I think they mean “who’s that”?
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Price increase for The Australian to $5.50
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