No Journos. No News. is a public campaign launched by the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance in response to wide-ranging redundancies taking place at News Limited. So far in 2009, News Limited has removed at least 106 journalists from its newspaper businesses across the country.
Redundancies at News Limited’s local and metropolitan mastheads are putting a huge amount of pressure on remaining staff to keep their communities properly informed. Readers will have to become used to a more homogenised news service and less in-depth investigation and analysis of local issues.
Meanwhile, News Corporation continues to make massive profits. And despite the global financial crisis, News has just decided to pay its newly-appointed president Chase Carey as $54.87 million in salary and benefits. Clearly, the pain from the cutbacks is not being shared by everyone in the company.
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