The brand new innovation centre, in any other case referred to as the ‘EIC’, was launched to employees by Information Corp Australia’s government chairman Michael Miller round a month in the past.
Information Corp’s new “innovation centre” might supply a lifeline to not too long ago laid-off staffers, as the corporate indicators additional consolidation within the face of cost-of-living pressures and the possible ensuing reader churn charges.
Fears of ongonig consolidation come after editors have been in late March tasked with placing ahead editorial jobs for redundancy as a part of a worldwide transfer to chop prices.
The nook of the enterprise to see the deepest cuts was the corporate’s NewsLocal service, which publishes digital editions of native information retailers together with the Canberra Star, Wentworth Courier and Launceston Information. Among the many most high-profile redundancies was managing editor and industrial director of Information Corp’s nationwide regional and neighborhood community, Rhett Watson.
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