"I am a former News Corp employee...a crime in one newspaper is a crime for all"

[kpete]

I am a former News Corp employee, working in IT in Australia between 2000 and 2003 in digital and print content management; news print and web publishing, advertising systems, archives, ecommerce, multimedia etc. I worked heavily with the production systems I am referring too below. Especially the global news paper production system, which is used at Wapping (News International) but is also the shared platform for most of the 140+ news papers in News Corp.

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The UK newspapers are one small set of a single, global newspaper production system which has included the New York Post for many years and now the WSJ.

140 newspapers share a single production system where all news is shared. So a crime in one newspaper is a crime for all.

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Cross media would also have ensured the textual content would of been spread into other formats like TV. In Australia FoxTel and Sky, in UK BSkyB, the US Fox.

News International's newspapers are a small set of a single, unified, global, newspaper production system. Its integrated principally by the digital pagination and advertising system, which operates on the same software as airlines or banks. Its a real-time market for matching ads to editorial and selling content. There are 140 newspapers around the world ALL sharing the same production system. The printing presses are also part of the system, and KRM has made massive investments in these news factories over the years.

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LOTS MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/17/995522/-Comments-from-Inside-News-Corp-UPDATED?via=siderec

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Oh, now see...

I LIKE this post.
And I shall kick and rec thee.

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[WhiteTara]

2. That is stunning information.

I hope that is the death knell for Murdock's evil empire.

[beac]

3. K&R! n/t

[annabanana]

4. k&r . . . . . . n/t

[WillyT]

5. HUGE K & R !!!

:kick:

[Kaleko]

6. A must-read piece. Thank you, kpete.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Would that suggest that they would be subject to RICO?

[myrna minx]

8. Let me guess Murdoch will be "Too big to fail" too.n/t

[JAnthony]

9. Great Link to read ...the whole thing!

Thanks for that!

[AndyTiedye]

10. Very Very Kicked and Recommended

[Enthusiast]

11. What were they thinking when they

allowed this son of a bitch to buy the Wall Street Journal? See, this was a glaring error. Our government seems to be a cascade of glaring errors directed by and for corporations.

[Fridays Child]

12. k/r

[Kaleko]

13. Up to the top.

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. The gist of the accusation is okay, but there is a significant error here.

The newspapers in the conglomerate do NOT share a single production system.

This doesn't mean they don't share content. They do and I think that is the legitimate claim. But it cannot be based on a shared production system. I don't think that term is being used appropriately in this context. They share content via wire feed, email, etc.

I hate to be a nit-picker, but it could be an important point.

Again, they do not have a single production system, but you don't have to have one to share content. This IT person from Australia should choose his words more carefully. The production system among the 150+ newspapers is not remotely as shared as he makes it sound.

[nashville_brook]

15. k and r