News Corp has swung the axe on planned major job cuts as part of a company-wide restructure today, with a number of leadership jobs lost across the company.
Instead of the company’s usual practice of major announcements in all-staff meetings known as “town halls”, various newsrooms around the business received simultaneous and separate briefings on Wednesday morning, all around 11am Eastern time.
These meetings confirmed that the company’s metropolitan mastheads would move to a seven-day roster, as reported recently in the Nine newspapers.
The restructure will see News Corp divided into three divisions — “fast and free”, which includes news.com.au
Crikey is committed to hosting lively discussions. Help us keep the conversation useful, interesting and welcoming. We aim to publish comments quickly in the interest of promoting robust conversation, but we’re a small team and we deploy filters to protect against legal risk. Occasionally your comment may be held up while we review, but we’re working as fast as we can to keep the conversation rolling.
The Crikey comment section is members-only content. Please subscribe to leave a comment.
The Crikey comment section is members-only content. Please login to leave a comment.