BRITISH daily newspaper The Guardian has announced its intention to launch a digital edition in Australia.
Due to start up this year, the operation aims to capitalise on an existing substantial Australian readership, launch editor Katharine Viner said.
"We already have a large number of Australian readers, who tell us they want more of our on-the-ground reporting, lively commentary and groundbreaking open journalism," Viner said in a statement announcing the venture on Tuesday.
"We will build a small Australian team to cover the issues that really matter to the nation and connect our Australian readers to the Guardian's global network of correspondents and commentators."
The statement said The Guardian already has a global digital audience of about 39 million, of which some 1.3 million are based in Australia, making the nation the masthead's fourth-largest market.
The operation will launch with the help of "founding investor" and chair of not-for-profit news and features website The Global Mail, Graeme Wood.
Outgoing director of editorial policies at the ABC Paul Chadwick will become non-executive director of the Guardian's Australian entity.
"I welcome the contribution to media diversity that the Australian operation of the Guardian will make," the Walkley Award winner said.
"The Guardian, with its long and distinguished tradition of editorial independence and valuable investigations, is a leading innovator in digital news and information.
"Its decision to commit to Australia is cause for optimism that quality journalism will continue to fulfil its democratic function in this era of rapid media change."
Guardian News and Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger said the Australian expansion comes as a "natural next step" for the publication, which dates back to 1821 in regional England.
"Our Australian digital edition will not only offer our unique take on Australia, a significant nation both regionally and globally, but will also serve as a base for reporting on, and engaging with, people across Asia," Rusbridger said.
"It will be of real benefit to our global audience, to see how dominant questions of our time - economics, geopolitics, climate change, immigration, media, democracy and more - are being grasped in such an important part of the world."
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Guardian makes Aussie expansion official
Dengan url
http://semangatkaummuda.blogspot.com/2013/01/guardian-makes-aussie-expansion-official.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Guardian makes Aussie expansion official
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Guardian makes Aussie expansion official
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar