News Corp Australia

$5.50 for The Weekend Australian is more expensive than the weekend editions of Herald Sun (currently $4).

If you shop at Woolworths though, you may be lucky enough to get a discount coupon at the back of the docket, allowing you to buy The Weekend Australian for $3.50 with the coupon. The offer ends on August 31.

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The rich person paper? :thinking: :joy:

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Revenues at News Corp Australia decreased 5%, driven by lower circulation and subscription revenues, and included a $4 million, or 1%, negative impact from foreign currency fluctuations.

Circulation and subscription revenues decreased $9 million, or 3%, compared to the prior year, primarily due to lower print volumes and lower digital circulation and subscription revenue at News Corp Australia due to the expiration of the Meta content licensing deal, partially offset by price increases and digital subscriber growth at News UK.

Advertising revenues decreased $11 million, or 5%, compared to the prior year, primarily due to lower print advertising at News UK and News Corp Australia and lower digital advertising mainly driven by a decline in traffic at some mastheads due to platform-related changes, partly offset by growth in digital advertising at Wireless Group.

In the quarter, segment EBITDA decreased $17 million, or 38%, compared to the prior year, driven by lower contribution from News Corp Australia. Adjusted segment EBITDA decreased 38%.

Closing digital subscribers at News Corp Australia as of June 30, 2024 were 1,117,000 (968,000 for news mastheads), compared to 1,059,000 (943,000 for news mastheads) in the prior year (Source: Internal data).

(amounts in US dollars)


The Guardian Australia’s Amanda Meade writes in her Weekly Beast column today that The Australian gave a voluntary redundancy to its higher education editor Tim Dodd at the end of July. She also says that academics Graham Murdock (Loughborough University), Benedetta Brevini (New York University) and former ABC executive Michael Ward have written a new book, News Corp: Empire of Influence, which will be published in September.

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The price of the Sunday Mail (SA) will increase to $4.50 from tomorrow, I assume the price of News Corp’s other Sunday papers will also increase tomorrow.

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That’s why News Corp’s major metro papers have been promoting their new subscription offers on their respective homepages with a red banner such as this:

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Funny isn’t it, you’d think the wealthy types woud choose subscription due to disposable income and knowledge of savings.

To be fair The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age are quite expensive as well.


Not sure if this is the correct thread for it, but some tragic news that has come out of Melbourne this morning with the sudden passing of Herald Sun AFL journalist Sam Landsberger:

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/tributes-for-muchloved-herald-sun-footy-journalist-sam-landsberger/news-story/3aef55d10ee7aaf2244fdea8cb368833

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Devastating, what a shock, been around for many many years. A leading scribe too. Did a brilliant Olympics schedule summary on a daily basis online. Vale :cry:

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So sad, a promising journalism career tragically cut short.

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Front page of Herald Sun on Wednesday

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On Fox Footy’s Midweek Tackle tonight, Herald Sun’s Jon Ralph, Jay Clark and Glenn McFarlane paid tribute to their colleague Sam Landsberger. The show didn’t air as scheduled on Tuesday night due to the journalist’s shock death.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/herald-sun-journalists-pay-tribute-to-sam-landsberger-on-fox-footys-midweek-tackle/news-story/79502bc317f668bf5458cbac6e514340

The paper reports Landsberger’s funeral will be held next Monday.

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I enjoyed his Olympic updates during the recent Olympics and would’ve done the Paralympics starting next week.

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If it didn’t air Wednesday night, then how did Jon/Jay/Glenn pay tribute? Not via that TV show?

Just to clarify, Midweek Tackle didn’t air on Tuesday night. It returned on Wednesday night during when the panellists paid tribute.

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Cairns Post senior reporter Bronwyn Farr died suddenly on August 11, aged 59. Her funeral was held last Friday.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/talented-journalists-death-sends-shockwaves-through-local-community/news-story/796b114ff42bc71d272222a49632dea2

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The Australian’s China correspondent Will Glasgow has returned to the country after nearly four years.

Years of meetings over tea with Chinese diplomats preceded my return. Then in May, to my surprise, came an invitation letter from the Chinese government. After that it was off to Canberra for discussions with the Australian government.

A fortnight ago, after receiving the final necessary green light, I flew into Beijing from Taipei to ­become the first journalist working for Australian media to be based here since August 2020. Following the clearing of a series of further Chinese bureaucratic hurdles, this week I was issued a foreign reporter’s press card — and with that little piece of plastic, China’s almost four-year black-listing of Australian media came to an end.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/back-to-beijing-china-reopens-its-doors-to-the-australian/news-story/934262cdeeaee2ba2b5e236bd0f5bba7

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Great - hopefully the Chinese Government allows the return of ABC journalists.