Rupert Murdoch’s Australian publishing empire has begun the painful task of shedding long-serving journalists amid falling revenues across the media industry.
The editor whose news website broke the Brittany Higgins rape story has lost her job in a major corporate shake-up at the top of News Corp’s Australian publishing empire., blindsided staff who work at the site. Although senior job losses across the company were anticipated as part of the corporate restructuring announced on Wednesday, staff expected them to be concentrated in the financially struggling tabloid newspapers.
Peter Blunden, the last of the old-school News Corp editors whose proximity to Rupert Murdoch saw him wield enormous influence over the company’s Victorian affairs for decades, will relinquish responsibility for the national reporting teams. However, he will retain his board positions as he steps back to three days a week.
She joined the company 20 years ago and since shifting to News.com.au in 2012 has helped build it into Australia’s most-read news website and one of the few profitable parts of the publishing empire. She was made editor-in-chief two months before reporter Sam Maiden broke the Brittany Higgins story that won that year’s Gold Walkley award.will continue to chase clicks in a division known as “free news and lifestyle”, published by Pippa Leary.
The restructure, shaped by PwC consultants, removes the last remnants of the state-based fiefdoms that once ran the Murdoch empire under all-powerful former masthead editors. In effect, Australia’s largest employer of journalists has adopted a national model, which it hopes will enable it to complete the transition from a print to a fully digital media company.
The full impact of the changes on newsrooms will become clear once the new bosses make staffing decisions about how best to meet their budgets.“I suspect a bunch of people over the next couple of weeks will learn that they haven’t got a job,” a senior company figure said. “The company came and offered a 12-month rollover deal of full EBA negotiations, and members have resolved to accept the deal,” Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance director Michelle Rae said.MEAA members have endorsed the deal, which will soon be put to a formal vote of endorsement by all News Corp staff.
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