Today
A letter and PowerPoint about News Corp made this activist fund $120m
A failed bid to merge with Fox Corporation pointed out the inherent value in a couple of News Corp’s assets. One investor cashed in on the rise.
- 30 mins ago
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
This Month
Ex-Allens lawyer sets up Australia’s first prison newspaper
The first edition of About Time was delivered to correctional facilities in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT this month.
- Maxim Shanahan
AI ‘final nail in coffin’ of Australia’s creative sector
The group representing the nation’s creative workers says the technology could utterly devastate their already diminished earning power.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Disgraced corporate raider Ron Brierley rides again
The former corporate titan was convicted for possessing child porn in 2021. Now, he’s out of prison and investing in Seven West Media.
- Mark Di Stefano
How ‘the voice of the Games’ was nearly off the air for Paris
Bruce McAvaney has been calling the Olympic Games since 1984, but he was left feeling lost when Seven failed to pick up the broadcasting rights. Then the phone rang.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
$135m and 5000 hours: Paris Olympics ‘profitable’, Nine CEO says
Nine Entertainment chief Mike Sneesby says the media giant will make money out of its big bet on the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
The TV networks’ big annual parties aren’t a good look this year
Cost-conscious broadcasters are set to overhaul their new season show reveals – champagne-fuelled events known as upfronts.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
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
How $116 in travel expenses blew up a public servant’s life
A defamation judgment against Kerry Stokes’ newspaper is a grim tale of expenses and shoddy journalism.
- Mark Di Stefano
Newlywed Murdoch joins Bezos and Canva duo at billionaires’ retreat
The 93-year-old media mogul is no longer returning home to mark The Australian’s 60th anniversary – but he does appear to have given it a present.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Liberals still want vindication on Brittany Higgins saga
Suggestions we need to understand how the Higgins allegations affected the last election are telling. But satisfaction is unlikely.
- Myriam Robin
- Analysis
- Billionaires
Old and new money meet at billionaires’ annual retreat
Network Ten owner Shari Redstone was in Sun Valley along with Bob Iger, a crop of Democratic presidential hopefuls and the tech elite for the annual Allen & Co gathering.
- Nick Bonyhady
Network Ten owner sold to ‘Top Gun’ billionaires
The billionaire family behind Oracle Corporation along with ‘Mission Impossible’ and ‘Top Gun’ films will take control of the network in a complex deal.
- Nick Bonyhady
Mediaweek publisher to ‘step back’ amid workplace misconduct claims
Formal complaints about alleged behaviour of Trent Thomas, owner of the trade media publication, lodged by two people and investigated by external firms.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
‘We know nothing’: Media blasts information void in privacy reform
Uncertainty about the Albanese government’s new privacy laws threatens billions in advertising, with one data firm urging clients to pause online targeting.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Todd Woodbridge and the jackpot quiz thwarting Seven’s news offensive
The former tennis star and Nine presenter is upending the 6pm news ratings battle because of the unlikely success of the game show he hosts at 5pm.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Mediaweek rocked by sexual harassment allegations
Trent Thomas, who owns and runs Mediaweek, was found by an internal HR investigation to have sexually harassed and bullied staff.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Airtasker bets $10m stake on radio, outdoor media surge
Airtasker founder Tim Fung has signed two deals in two weeks with media companies to promote its gig economy platform.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
What’s Peter Dutton got against David Crowe?
Midwinter Ball speeches are meant to be roasts, and we’d never suggest journalists are off-limits. But Dutton’s dig at Crowe is starting to form a pattern.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Lehrmann committed to stand trial on two counts of rape
Magistrate Mark Howden returned with a decision that a reasonable jury, properly instructed, could potentially find the allegations proven beyond reasonable doubt.
- Rex Martinich
