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10 News First signs broadcast partnership with The New Daily

Network 10’s 10 News First has today signed a broadcast partnership deal with growing Australian digital news website, The New Daily.

The arrangement will see The New Daily broadcast 10 News First video news stories, news updates and breaking news on its website platform and distributed to its subscriber database, daily.

The 10 News First video content will be enabled through JW Player allowing both parties to commercialise the video with pre and post roll advertising.

10 News First head of digital news & strategy, Rashell Habib, said: “We’re excited to partner with The New Daily and work together in delivering news as it happens, across multiple platforms.”

Similar broadcasting arrangements, with state-based local content, have also been secured for The New Daily’s sister sites in Adelaide (www.InDaily.com.au) and Queensland (www.InQueensland.com.au). All sites are operated by Solstice Media.

Solstice Media’s managing director, Paul Hamra, said its audiences were highly engaged, absorbing the site’s breaking news and commentary from journalists such as Alan Kohler, Michael Pascoe, Paul Bongiorno, Madonna King and Kirstie Clements.

“Our readers also want video content around local, national and world events to complement their online experience. 10 News First was the perfect partner as it does not publish its own digital news service.

“So, it is a win win for us and for the 10 News First brand to amplify its content to our news-hungry audience and for The New Daily to enhance its offering to readers.”

The New Daily has over 700,000 subscribers who engage daily with its news. It is ranked sixteenth on the Nielsen Net Ratings, with an online audience of 1.9 million.

The news comes after Ten ViacomCBS appointed Martin White as head of broadcast news and Rashell Habib as head of digital news and strategy last September. Both are newly created roles reporting directly to chief content officer and executive vice president of ViacomCBS Australia and New Zealand, Beverley McGarvey.

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