News Corp Australia

What year did she finish?

Must’ve been before 2011 at least?

2012

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Never heard of her.

Not sure why a Fairfax publication thinks that’s even worthy of an article. Fairfax has gone downhill so far, and so quickly.

According to Mumbrella, News Corp is making $40 million in cuts in the next few months, due to a shrinking advertising market. The cuts will include redundancies.

The Australian has announced it will reopen its Washington bureau early next year to provide on-the-ground reporting of the Trump presidency. The paper’s associate editor Cameron Stewart has been appointed Washington correspondent. As the consequence the paper will close its Indian bureau, with bureau chief Greg Bearup returning to Sydney next year, taking up his former position as a senior writer on The Weekend Australian Magazine. Southeast Asia correspondent Amanda Hodge will take on additional responsibilities for South Asia, based in Jakarta.

They had an Indian bureau but not a Washington one?

News Corp is cutting back content on its weekly TV guide Switched On. Today’s guide in the Herald Sun features just one article (Big Bash League host Roz Kelly) with the rest TV listings. It is asking readers to subscribe to the paper so they can read the rest of the content at the website’s TV section. I notice The Daily Telegraph has been doing the same for the past few months.

Veteran Herald Sun sports reporter Daryl Timms is retiring next week, ending a 30-year newspaper career. He will become a horse trainer based in Cranbourne in Melbourne’s south east. So in the space of 12 months, two experienced reporters have left the paper (Ron Reed and Daryl Timms) with perhaps more to come as the result of cost cutting.

Long gone are the days when the Wednesday TV liftout in the Herald Sun was essential reading.

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Once Fidgeon died, so did the liftout.

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pretty much. It was never really the same after he died.

I long remember eagerly awaiting the Wednesday Herald Sun and the TV lift out. It was the TV Tonight of its time.

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Rupert Murdoch is 85. Once he leaves this earthly realm, it’s highly likely that some of his worldwide newspaper holdings will be sold or shut down.

The Daily Telegraph columnist Joe Hildebrand is moving from the paper to news.com.au to become its editor-at-large. He will be writing news analysis columns for the website from next Monday (January 23). He is staying as co-host of Studio 10.

And leaving Studio 10?

@JBar Joe is not leaving Studio 10.

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Changes at The Australian’s media section:
Mitchell Bingemann has been ­appointed senior media writer after spending the past decade reporting on the tech, telco, media and aviation sectors.
Features editor Stephen Brook is joining the media team as ­diarist in the coming weeks. A former media editor of the paper, Brook spent eight years in Britain before rejoining The Australian in 2011.
Media writer Jake Mitchell has quit the paper to become business and corporate development manager at streaming service Stan. Mitchell began his media career nearly five years ago at the Australian Financial Review covering the media and marketing beat, later moved across to The Australian’s media section, before recently switching to its Street Talk column.

Former Essendon premiership forward Matthew Lloyd has joined the Herald Sun as an AFL columnist, as advertised on page 3 of today’s paper. He previously wrote a column for The Sunday Age and The Sun-Herald in Sydney.
Collingwood AFLW captain Moana Hope will also write a regular column for the Herald Sun from this month.

News Corp was a big winner at tonight’s Australian Sports Commission Media Awards at Melbourne, claiming three awards:
Best reporting of an issue in sport: Gotcha: The Parramatta Eels Salary Cap Scandal; Nick Tabakoff, Daily Telegraph
Best coverage of sport by an individual – print media: Will Swanton, The Australian
Best profiling of an athlete, team or coach – print media: ‘Jarryd Hayne’; Will Swanton, The Australian

Rebecca Wilson, who died from cancer last year, was posthumously awarded lifetime achievement award for contribution to sports journalism.

Fairfax has inferred that they broke the story, so why didn’t the SMH win, have to wonder.