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Industry Moves: News Corp. Forms Global Editorial Hub; Fox News’ Moody To Lead It

imageNews Corp (NYSE: NWS). isn’t immune to the advertising cutbacks that are squeezing news organizations both online and offline, and so Rupert Murdoch wants his various properties to start sharing more. The company is setting up a new unit designed to share content from all of News Corp.‘s global sources. The News Corp. editorial portal will be headed by John Moody, who has been EVP for News Editorial at Fox News. Moody will report directly to Murdoch.

The new post calls for Moody to work with news chiefs across all News Corporation properties to find ways to pool reporting resources and cut costs. Before coming to Fox, Moody spent 14 years at Time magazine and last held the post as the newsweekly’s NY bureau chief.

Robert adds: In the UK, we are expecting future integration of WSJ.com with News International’s Times Online, possibly introducing a premium subscription for business news. In December, Sun Online already added a footer linking to stablemates’ sites - not just domestic Sky News and Times Online but also US stablemates FoxNews.com and New York Post. Meanwhile, Sky News, which already syndicated web video to Times Online, is now starting to co-produce new videos with the paper. And WSJ.com already does a co-branded business section with the joint News.com.au/The Australian site.

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Apr 15, 2009 2:58 AM ET
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  • Grahame Eade

    News in Australia has already started this sort of thing with photographic assignments shared between papers such as Brisbane's Courier-Mail, te Gold Coast Bulletin and the Austrslians. If the GCB is attending an event pictorialy, he CM is not allowed to do so and vice versa. There is also massive talk about a national features desk for all News mastheads AND a national subbing desk is in the wind. In Brisbane, the Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail will share subbing resources as of July and there is talk that community and regional papers will also be subbed out of one Brisbane office.

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