Tuesday, 3 January 2017

News Corp Australia announces redundancies and $40m cost-cutting #33

News Corp Australia announces redundancies and $40m cost-cutting 


The Holt Street headquarters of News Corp Australia in Sydney.

This news story looks at how News Corp Australia has dropped it's staff across all sectors and aims at cutting $40 million in extra costs. News Corp has already cut around 2000 jobs between 2012 and now which is a huge step in cutting costs and it did show how extensive these media corporations were before the Internet took over.  News Corp Australia suffered an 11% fall in advertising revenue in the first quarter, according to the company’s financial results in November.

Job losses are expected and something needs to be done as a result of the decline of people paying for news across all platforms. If institutions refuse to go behind a paywall then of course they loose out on a lot of money but it also comes a disadvantage because people now a days expect news to come for free.



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