Dozens of roles at SMH, The Age to go to drive digitial push
Nine Entertainment is cutting dozens of jobs across its major Australian mastheads, including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. The restructure aims to accelerate a digital-first strategy in response to a challenging advertising market and technological shifts.
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This reflects the ongoing financial instability of traditional print media as it struggles to transition to digital-only business models.
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Share A A A Nine’s publishing division, which includes this masthead, will make dozens of roles redundant as part of a restructure to sharpen its focus on digital news amid a tough advertising market and rapid technological disruption in the media industry.
About 30 voluntary redundancies will be initially offered to staff at The Sydney Morning Herald , The Age , WAToday and Brisbane Times as the division pushes for more digital subscribers, with staff in the division’s print operations team and free news site nine.com.au also facing cuts.
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