Editor-in-chief of news.com.au among casualties in News Corp Australia restructure

Staff told some people will regrettably leave our business' as media empire is reorganised into three divisions

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Rupert Murdoch's Australian media empire has been reorganised into mastheads which are free, tabloids which are subscription-based and so-called prestige titles the Australian newspaper and Vogue magazine.

The radical restructure dismantles the state-based organisation, centralises power along national lines and abolishes the role of several senior editorial executives.

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