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Sydney to be hub for News Corp’s content sharing project NewsCore

News Corp’s project to make its content available to all of its international outlets will have Sydney as one of its three global hubs, Mumbrella can reveal.  

In an email to staff this morning, News Ltd’s group editorial director Campbell Reid said:

As some of you will be aware, News Corporation is developing a 21st century multi-media information service that will draw on News Corporation’s worldwide news and sports resources to make the best of our reporting, images and video journalism available to other News properties everywhere, at once. It aims to electronically connect News Corp’s news properties and usher in a new era of collaboration between our global divisions. 

“Led by John Moody, the former Executive Vice president of Fox News, NewsCore aims to embed itself in our urgent queues, satellite feeds and websites, collecting the best of News Corp’s multimedia editorial product, then redistribute it, cost-free in a format that will slide easily into each newsroom’s existing workflow. Editors will be able to see what their sister organisations are doing on a real-time basis.

“Its headquarters are in New York and bureaus are being set up in London and Sydney.

“Scott Norvell who is Chief Operating Officer for NewsCore is visiting Sydney next week and is searching for talented people to be part of the start up team for this genuinely innovative project.”

The company is advertising for several editorial roles in Sydney. The posts include senior editors, bureau managers and writer/ editors.

The job description for all of the roles demands candidates who are “forward thinking and possess an innate ability to understand the moving target of consumer demands across cultures”.

The move – which is being presented as being about more efficiently sharing existing content across the group was announced in April.

However, the move could well be seen as akin to News Corp creating a new international news agency.

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