News Corp Tells Its Aussie Editors to Focus on Print

Australian: News Corp. Australia has told its editors to renew their focus on the printed product of newspapers to reinvigorate their agenda-setting position in the news cycle. Group editorial director Campbell Reid also attacked Facebook and Google for “irresponsible behavior,” arguing newspapers had a more important role than ever: “Facebook is not a media company and Google says their intention is to do no harm, but they don’t really care when others use their channels for evil and they don’t take enough responsibility for it.”  The Internet, he added, has failed to kill newspapers. “If the digital revolution was going to kill ­papers, it would have already done so. The world is coming to understand the incredible duty that a paper performs in its society.”