Fox Sports News staff facing redundancies

June 20, 2013 1:16

Staff at Fox Sports News are being offered redundancies in the wake of News Limited converting to a new editorial system this month.

The move comes almost a year after News Limited increased its stakeholding in Foxtel, giving the company full ownership of Fox Sports.

News Limited said the merger with Fox Sports had “unfortunately” impacted a number of roles at Fox Sports News. The company refused to reveal the total number of jobs affected.

“As part of this integration, we are continually looking at ways of working smarter and more efficiently,” a News Limited spokesman told Encore. “We are offering a voluntary redundancy program and hope to redeploy a number of those remaining within the broader News Limited business. Those leaving the business will be given their full entitlements and be offered support services.”

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Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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Andrew Duffy 20 Jun 13

This is a little vague, are they talking about sacking the online reporters? Interesting move cause the online side went through a bit of a hiring spree ~6 months ago…

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