{"id":24020,"date":"2026-07-21T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/nine-to-axe-30-jobs-at-the-age-and-smh-due-to-extreme-ai-disruption\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:38:10","slug":"nine-to-axe-30-jobs-at-the-age-and-smh-due-to-extreme-ai-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/nine-to-axe-30-jobs-at-the-age-and-smh-due-to-extreme-ai-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine to axe 30 jobs at the Age and SMH due to \u2018extreme\u2019 AI disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of \u2018evolution\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/21\/australia-news-live-barnaby-joyce-pauline-hanson-one-nation-anthony-albanese-labor-antisemitism-royal-commission-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia\u2019s biggest media company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/channel-nine\">Nine Entertainment<\/a>, has blamed the \u201cextreme state of disruption\u201d from AI for its decision to cut another 30 newsroom jobs at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the managing director of publishing, Tory Maguire, told staff the company was looking to cut \u201caround 30\u201d positions, made up of voluntary and targeted redundancies. Maguire said the exercise was not simply a matter of cutting costs, but was an \u201cevolution\u201d to adapt to structural change.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jul\/21\/smh-age-job-cuts-nine-sydney-morning-herald\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8935649a58c9aa7b3d7c701e59de7935c10e0df1\/12_0_5853_4683\/master\/5853.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e3d58825953bf7436c6d0be3e3cd3239\" title=\"Nine to axe 30 jobs at the Age and SMH due to \u2018extreme\u2019 AI disruption\" \/>Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of \u2018evolution\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s biggest media company, Nine Entertainment, has blamed the \u201cextreme state of disruption\u201d from AI for its decision to cut another 30 newsroom jobs at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, the managing director of publishing, Tory Maguire, told staff the company was looking to cut \u201caround 30\u201d positions, made up of voluntary and targeted redundancies. Maguire said the exercise was not simply a matter of cutting costs, but was an \u201cevolution\u201d to adapt to structural change. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of \u2018evolution\u2019 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia\u2019s biggest media company, Nine Entertainment, has blamed the \u201cextreme state of disruption\u201d from AI for its decision to cut &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/nine-to-axe-30-jobs-at-the-age-and-smh-due-to-extreme-ai-disruption\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nine to axe 30 jobs at the Age and SMH due to \u2018extreme\u2019 AI disruption<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}