In the community

News Digital Media in the Community

News Digital Media is proud of its role in the Australian community, informing and inspiring millions of readers every day. As part of its corporate social responsibility News Digital Media supports numerous charities through donations and sponsorships, as well as through editorial and advertising support. Such charities include Jeans for Genes, Starlight Foundation, November, Unicef, Cancer Council of Australia and Diabetes Australia.

Sponsorships

News Digital Media's brands proudly sponsor a range of community initiatives and events. Recent examples include -

News Digital Media supports MAYDAY (Media Assisting Youth Day), a fantastic fundraising initiative with the proceeds going to KidsXpress, Streetworx & Musicians Making a Difference. This year the hope is to raise $1million dollars to these worthy causes. News Digital Media has donated $50,000 worth of inventory to be auctioned off at a ceremony which will be held on the 28th May at the Ivy, Sydney.    

CareerOne.com.au partnered with Worldskills, a not-for-profit organisation, established to help promote and raise awareness of vocational skills-based jobs throughout Australia. The five year partnership sees the two organisations working together to showcase vocational skills through national and international competitions and to help tackle the skills shortage in Australia.

carsguide.com.au partnered the website, GEARED.com.au , an online New South Wales government initiative to engage young drivers. The site offers information about buying, selling and maintaining cars, road safety and licensing.

NEWS.com.au sponsored the National Band National Campus Band Competition, the largest live band competition in the southern hemisphere.

truelocal.com.au is the principal sponsor of Keep Australia Beautiful’s "Australian Tidy Towns Awards" in 2008.

Climate Change

On May 10th 2007, Rupert Murdoch announced a major initiative to address climate change - committing all News Corporation businesses across the world to becoming carbon neutral in 2010, and to inspire action around the world.

Here in Australia, News Digital Media is committed to being a leader on the issue of climate change and recently confirmed its status as one of the few Australian companies to become carbon neutral.

News Digital Media has achieved carbon neutrality through a combination of reducing its carbon emissions as much as possible, and then offsetting what we can't. Even though the company is carbon neutral, it continues to work hard on reducing its emissions even further.

Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning of our permanent commitment to change the way we use energy and inspire our audience on this issue.

As one of  Australia’s leading digital media publishers, we are committed to informing, educating and enabling individuals to understand what they can do to help.  You can find out more at 1degree.com.au.