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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Amanda Meade

Anger after News Corp and Google Australia set up journalism academy at university business school

Melbourne University campus
Academics at the University of Melbourne say they were not consulted over a plan for News Corp Australia and Google to run a nine-month journalism course out of the university’s business school. Photograph: Luis Enrique Ascui/AAP

News Corp Australia has teamed up with its former foe, Google Australia, to establish the Digital News Academy to send hundreds of journalists to a university business school for training in “unashamedly” commercial journalism.

Murdoch’s corporate affairs executive Campbell Reid will be the inaugural head of the Digital News Academy (DNA) and News Corp big-name writers Joe Hildebrand, Hedley Thomas and Sharri Markson will be on tap for students as “experts”.

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