Several reports have appeared today on the
ABC, in
Fairfax Media, in
Rupert Murdoch's
Australian paper, on the
Crikey website and distributed far and wide via
AAP : Britain's
Guardian Newspaper is to set up in Australia with an on-line newspaper publishing local content.
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| Graeme Wood |
The project is a joint venture with Guardian Newspapers and multi-millionaire philanthropist
Graeme Wood who has invested around $20M in his Global Mail digital news magazine.
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| Annabel Crabb |
None of this is news of course for regular
Social Shuttle readers who were
brought this exact news on the 31st December last year.
The Oz Guardian is expected to employ up to 35 to produce local journalism and already leading ex- Fairfax writers- some who took a nicely padded redundancy package last year including
Annabel Crabb and
David Marr have been offered posts by the Guardian's deputy editor
Katherine Viner.
