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June 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda News Ltd has declared about 100 redundancies as it starts to shed staff in a major restructure.
The journalists’ union – the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) – says management notified it of the impending loss of 70 digital platform staff on Tuesday, less than a week after Australia’s biggest newspaper publisher unveiled a comprehensive restructuring plan.
At News Ltd’s regional Queensland mastheads – which includes the Townsville Bulletin, Gold Coast Bulletin, Cairns Post – some 30 sub-editors have been made redundant.
MEAA acting federal secretary Paul Murphy said News Ltd’s sudden redundancies were a bad start to the restructure.
“The company revealed it was about to embark on a carefully thought-through restructuring process,” he said in a statement.
“But less than a week later, without proper consultation or explanation, its digital staff are learning that they are being made redundant at a time when they should have felt assured they would play a vital role in the future of the News Limited business.”
Last week News Ltd chief executive Kim Williams did not specify how many jobs would be lost, in stark contrast to Fairfax, which said 1900 jobs would go at The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald as part of its restructure.
In Queensland it is understood that of the 30 or so jobs lost 17 were editorial staff at the Gold Coast Bulletin.
Eight sub-editors each at the Cairns Post and Townsville Bulletin are also believed to have been made redundant.
The mastheads will now be subbed at a central hub based in Brisbane.
Editorial staff, who were directed not to comment about the announcements, took to social media to vent their frustrations.
“… well that horrible moment finally arrived – en masse … to my colleagues and friends who lost their jobs today … you are all in my thoughts,” one wrote on Facebook.
Another said: “Crap time to be in the newspaper industry. Thoughts go out to all the subs at The Townsville Bulletin.”
On Tuesday night, News Ltd would still not confirm how many jobs had gone.
“We can confirm that as part of rolling out our new operating model to build our business, we have made a range of roles redundant across the business,” a News Ltd spokesperson said in a statement.
“Positions are also being retired through natural attrition.”
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