The Australian has tweeted that their cartoonist Bill Leak has died.
The Australian’s editorial cartoonist Bill Leak has died in hospital of a suspected heart attack. He was 61.
Editor in chief Paul Whittaker described Leak as “a giant in his field of cartooning and portraiture and a towering figure for more than two decades” at the newspaper and said he was “simply irreplaceable”.
Quite a shock, especially given he only launched his latest book Trigger Warning on Wednesday. It is a collection of Leak’s most popular cartoons published in The Australian last year. His work may have been controversial but he is one of the best cartoonists in this country. RIP
Sad.
Unfair that the stress placed upon him by Gillian Triggs’ far-left and unreasonable Human Rights Commission may have lead to that. Is there any avenue for someone to be charged with manslaughter once the facts are investigated and any causation determined by the relevant authorities?
Or maybe the struggles with alcoholism and drug abuse played a part.
Perhaps - that’s why I called for the facts to be investigated.
Didn’t always agree with his various points of view but a massive loss to journalism and the arts.
According to The Australian, News Corp has decided to rename its Cartoonist of the Year at the annual News Awards after Bill Leak.
Siobhan McKenna has left the board of the Ten Network and joined News Corporation heading up broadcasting where she will have oversight of Fox Sports, Foxtel and Sky News and will join the boards of those companies.
For the second year in a row, News Corp, Royal Australian Mint, Legacy and Westpac have come together to release a series of coins to commemorate Anzac Day. This year it will consist of four 25c copper-plated coins and 10 silver 20c coins replicating some of Australia’s higest awards for gallantry and also service medals. Legends of the Anzacs: Medals of Honour collection starts in late March in WA and early April in other states (no coin available on Good Friday).
The Australian has appointed Brad Norington and Nick Tabakoff as new associate editors. Norington will also serve as NSW political reporter.
There was uproar last year (or in 2015) when Fairfax made almost all its photographers redundant and sourced photos from agencies like Getty Images. I can’t believe News Corp is going down the same route, proposing to sack a majority of photographers just to save $40 million per year.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4401056/News-Corp-cut-70-cent-photography-staff.html
Just $40 million? It’s alright for you fat cats. 
If it already happened to the rival media group, what is it you can’t believe exactly?
I thought News Corp would have hired some of those photographers who were let go by Fairfax. Now News Corp is planning to get rid of most of them and only keeping a small team of specialists.
But why would they be expanding their operations, while all the others in the industry are shrinking? If anything, people would find it hard to believe NewsCorp were expanding.
A lot of the photos illustrating news stories now are taken from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. News organisations are getting the pictures for free.
You make it seem like some piddly amount
$40 million is a piddly amount given the size of the parent company and its international operations.
It really is not. How much have their profits dropped in the last ten years?
Yesterday News Corp’s editorial staff in Brisbane unanimously passed a motion of no confidence at senior management in Sydney according to Mumbrella. However I don’t understand what this part of the motion means:
On a daily basis we see our masthead’s (The Courier-Mail) paywall breached by news.com.au and other News Corp mastheads.
Are the articles on News Corp mastheads not meant to be shared and distributed on sister papers’ websites (e.g. a report on The Courier-Mail website appears on the Herald Sun website)?