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    Mediaweek’s Trent Thomas has discussed a potential sale of the publication internally.

    Mediaweek publisher flags potential sale of business with staff

    Those comments came after the Financial Review revealed Trent Thomas had been found by external investigators to have bullied and harassed a member of staff.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones

    June

    Meta chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg will not renew deals with publishers worth more than $210 million over three years.

    Meta threatens Australian news ban in media bargaining war

    News sites and links could once again be blocked from Meta’s platforms if the social media company is forced to negotiate content deals with local publishers.

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    • Tess Bennett
    Last week Nine Entertainment chief executive Mike Sneesby told parliament jobs will go if Meta’s deals do.

    Nine Entertainment to cut 200 jobs as Meta content deal ends

    CEO Mike Sneesby made the announcement as Nine battles a weaker advertising market and a content deal with Meta, which runs Instagram and Facebook, ends.

    • Max Mason

    Financial Review Australia’s most trusted newspaper brand

    The Australian Financial Review has again been ranked the nation’s most trusted newspaper brand, as overall trust in the media declines across the board.

    Peace. love and understanding: who, in 2024, would be considered “pure” enough to fund music or arts festivals?

    Britain’s arts sector learns the cost of being too pure for finance

    A bank and asset manager have withdrawn their sponsorship of music and book festivals in the UK after activists called for boycotts.

    • Celia Walden
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    Google Australia and New Zealand MD Melanie Silva discusses the impact of her company’s AI experiments on media at the AFR’s AI Summit.

    Why publishers fear Google AI search will kill their websites

    News organisations are heading into another battle with tech giants, with growing fears the race to beat each other with AI summaries will result in more content stolen.

    • Paul Smith

    May

    News Corp Australia’s headquarters in Surry Hills, Sydney. The company has been working on budget planning this month.

    Winners and losers emerge as News Corp’s major restructure takes shape

    Nicholas Gray appears to have prevailed over Edwina McCann, the influential editor-in-chief of Vogue Australia who had been elevated to be editorial director of News Prestige

    • Max Mason
    Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media has demanded a 100 per cent price increase to continue printing The Australian Financial Review in Perth.

    AFR will not walk away from WA

    Political and business leaders in Western Australia say privately that Kerry Stokes has an unhealthy degree of media power in the state.

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    • Michael Stutchbury
    Bitter rivalry: West Australian billionaires Andrew Forrest and Kerry Stokes.

    After losing a deal, Stokes’ newspaper pursued Forrest

    The West Australian published dozens of critical articles about Fortescue’s founder after he refused to buy trucks from a related company.

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    • Aaron Patrick
    Geoff Selig at a Liberal Party conference in 2008.

    Former NSW Liberal president Geoff Selig dies at 59

    The businessman had been the chairman of catalogues and marketing firm IVE Group, which on Monday told investors of his death while on holiday in Europe.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones

    Financial Review appointments

    A new North Asia Correspondent and Health Editor.

    The WFH January mandate: How bosses are retaining staff

    Publisher Hachette offers a range of initiatives to help retain good staff, including a January work from home mandate.

    • Sylvia Ramsey

    April

    The PwC scandal was the biggest business story of 2023.

    News Corp drafts in PwC as it deals with Meta cash hole

    News Corp has tapped PwC Australia to help with its biggest restructure of the last decade as it seeks to deal with Meta ripping tens of millions of dollars out of the Australian news market.

    • Max Mason and Sam Buckingham-Jones
    John Hempton, chief investment officer of Bronte Capital, is sceptical a Hunterbrook could work in Australia.

    Short selling media company long odds for Australia

    Defamation claims, insider trading rules and regulatory pressure make the model likely unviable in Australia, says Bronte Capital’s John Hempton.

    • Nick Bonyhady

    March

    Evan Gershkovich, 32, became the first US journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War.

    ‘Every day is hard’: One year since Russia jailed Evan Gershkovich

    Since his arrest, the 32-year-old journalist for the Wall Street Journal has been held in the notorious high-security Lefortovo prison in Moscow.

    • Katie Robertson
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    The decision by social media giant Meta to stop paying for news content from Australian publishers is a wake-up call.

    Why we need a public inquiry into US tech giants

    There comes a time when too much power in a few hands is a bad thing, and that time is now.

    • Ivor Ries

    February

    Billionaire reveals secret to making money out of music

    The founder of WiseTech has just completed his third major investment in the music business.

    • Michael Bailey

    AFR subscribers can now gift 5 articles a month

    Australian Financial Review subscribers can now gift up to five articles each month to colleagues and friends. Here’s how to do it.

    January

    Executive editor of Nine’s metro mastheads Tory Maguire has been appointed managing director of publishing.

    Tory Maguire elevated to Nine’s top publishing job

    Tory Maguire will oversee all of Nine’s publications, including The Australian Financial Review.

    Non-fiction titles to look out for in 2024.

    Books to watch out for this year

    A selection of non-fiction titles that are already generating buzz.

    • Foreign Policy