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Hold the front page: Sydney Morning Herald forgoes Lidia Thorpe protest in favour of sneezing alpaca

Herald and the Age opt not to use photograph of Thorpe wearing possum-skin cloak and shaking her fist at King Charles on page one. Plus: The Australian fails to read fine print

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‘Borderline mental’: News Corp journos slam company’s AI crackdown on popular transcription service

Exclusive: News Corp has tracked its journalists using Otter.ai and then blocked the service, after evaluating the company’s AI use.

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Star rating: Channel Seven panned for including astrology on nightly news

Morning Show astrologer AstroTash lined up for a regular horoscope segment, drawing ridicule online. Plus: headlines behind bars

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Editor-in-chief of news.com.au among casualties in News Corp Australia restructure

Staff told some people will ‘regrettably leave our business’ as media empire is reorganised into three divisions

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‘Conspiratorial’: News Corp staff in a panic amid rampant restructure rumours

Staff at News Corp Australia are on high alert as the company’s biggest names descend on Sydney to hash out a major restructure.

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News Corp’s Voice coverage ‘heavily biased in favour of the No campaign’, study finds

News Corp commentators including Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt and Paul Murray were all found to heavily favour No arguments in their coverage.

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News Corp gasses up ‘green’ fossil fuels in a series on future energy – but does it pass the sniff test?

Series sponsored by organisations including coal and gas companies features ‘incorrect’ claims on ‘green gas’ and context missing on carbon capture technology

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Sky News to abstain from Voice endorsement, as Nine papers back Yes

In this week’s Media Briefs, Sky News abstains from a Voice endorsement, Nine pumps up its own tires on the Olympics, and the Press Council rules against the Oz.

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‘Selectively misquoted’: IPA and Daily Tele distort ‘woke’ university policies

A Daily Telegraph article highlighting an IPA report on censorship in universities is filled with easily debunked claims — and contradicts News Corp’s own internal policies.

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News Corp’s AI-generated stories are filled with mistakes, formatting problems and bizarre language

Articles generated for local News Corp mastheads include errors like traffic incidents listed in the future and erroneous code placed in stories.

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News Corp records 75% decline in full-year income amid ‘fruitful’ AI compensation talks

But News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson was upbeat with analysts, suggesting his conversations with AI companies could lead to ‘a positive financial result’.

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News Corp staff blindsided by company’s use of AI to produce articles for ‘years’

A letter sent to News Corp chair Michael Miller asks why staff only learnt about the company’s mass AI use from The Guardian.

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News Corp using AI to produce 3,000 Australian local news stories a week

The Data Local team uses AI technology to generate stories on weather, fuel prices and traffic reports for hyperlocal mastheads

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News Corp’s new ‘innovation centre’ is a potential lifeline for laid-off staffers

The ‘EIC’ was introduced to staff by News Corp Australia’s executive chairman Michael Miller in late May.

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News Corp Australia publishes lottery promotions presented as news stories about winners

Media giant is paid for publishing the articles and receives a share of ticket sales through links on the page

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Nine’s Pedestrian Group makes a ‘number’ of redundancies

The Nine subsidiary joins News Corp and Australian Community Media in cost-cutting exercises heading into the second financial quarter.

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News Corp to slash up to 40 editorial jobs in Australia after weak earnings

The cuts come as part of a move to slash costs globally, after the organisation suffered a 30% hit to earnings earlier this month.

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News Corp bosses laud diversity as staff encouraged to respect pronouns

Inside the attempted cultural facelift at News Corp Australia, where pronouns are encouraged and all genders recognised.

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Going on the defensive

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann is suing Network Ten, Lisa Wilkinson, News Corp Australia and Samantha Maiden for defamation, and a fifth COVID-19 vaccine will be rolled out this month for adults who haven’t had a booster or the virus in the past six months.

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Victoria’s voters ignored News Corp’s anti-Labor campaign but the controversy let Dan Andrews skate

Murdoch’s tabloids and Sky News have opened seemingly never-ending culture wars about which the average Australian knows little and cares less

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Without outside approval, Murdochs won’t hack re-merger of family companies

News Corp’s September quarter filing made it clear the re-merger won’t happen without the approval of independent directors and non-family shareholders.

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Kevin Rudd complaint questions why News Corp did not need to register under foreign influence scheme

Exclusive: Attorney General’s Department dismissed criticisms, prompting a Rudd staffer to claim it was operating a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy

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Media firms back public integrity hearings

Media companies have called for the national anti-corruption watchdog to hold public hearings as the starting point, rather than in "exceptional circumstances".

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Is News Corp Australia’s chairman walking the halls of Parliament?

A tipster tells us executive chairman of News Corp Australia Michael Miller was seen coming out of the ministerial wing of Parliament House on Tuesday afternoon.

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Emily Townsend and Alex Hillman publicly quit their jobs for climate change. Here's what happened next

Emily Townsend very publicly quit her job at News Corp over its bushfire and climate change reporting. She thought she was burning her bridges. Then the messages arrived.

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