The Guardian
News Corporation is launching a global service that will make all its news stories and videos instantly available to its entire network of TV, print and online news outlets.
The service, called NewsCore, will operate like a global wire service for all the company’s newspapers, TV networks and websites. News Corp is describing the venture as a “21st-century multi-media information service that will draw on the worldwide news and sports resources within News Corporation and make them available to other News properties everywhere”.
“When Sky News reports that Gordon Brown has called an election, everyone in the NWS family can run with it. When TG24 learns that Vesuvius has blown its top again, everyone in NewsCorp will have it. Immediately. And from a source we can trust–us,” said an internal briefing obtained by MediaGuardian.co.uk. More…