Yesterday
- Exclusive
- Seven West Media
Seven West axes three of its most senior executives in major shakeup
Analysts have warned the structural challenges facing the free-to-air television industries would hinder the broadcaster’s ability to grow its profit margins.
- Zoe Samios
This Month
A very British paper is forced to cover a scandal: its own
The discovery of $500 million missing from The Telegraph newspaper marks the end of the owners’ two decades of influence over British politics.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Defamation
AMP’s royal commission executive sues The Australian newspaper
AMP’s former head of advice, “Jack” Regan, claimed an article imputed he misled ASIC and admitted to misleading ASIC during the Hayne banking royal commission.
- Ronald Mizen
- Analysis
Publishers fear this new Google AI feature will kill their traffic
Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ has rolled out in the US. Its AI-generated results push links down by a full page, a new study has found.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Exclusive
- Funding
This ex-Young Rich Lister built a top media company, now he’s trying tech
Chris Wirasinha co-founded Pedestrian almost 20 years ago and bootstrapped the company until it was acquired by Nine. With Linkby, he’s taking a different path.
- Yolanda Redrup
Social media set to overtake TV as top source of news
The survey findings come as a Labor-led parliamentary committee demands tech firms and media companies face questions about the influence of such platforms.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
What restructure? Church and state blur over at national broadsheet
The bar for what’s newsworthy in media is sometimes difficult to gauge. News Corp’s massive restructure, and the high-profile exits that followed, was not.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Exclusive
- Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon backs Nine as $550m stake fuels succession questions
The billionaire says the publishing and broadcast giant is a company “worth investing in” despite turmoil, controversy and the abrupt departure of its chairman.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
The leak that got away: Chanticleer on Foxtel’s $2b losses
Seven former Chanticleer columnists reminisced about their biggest stories on Thursday to celebrate the column’s 50th anniversary. Here’s what they said.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Through 50 years of change, Chanticleer’s mission endures
While the corporate landscape has shifted over five decades, the ingredients of the Chanticleer column remain the same: a healthy degree of scepticism, a dash of humour, and an eternal sense of curiosity.
- James Thomson
Kim Williams shares Paul Keating’s lesson on art of persuasion
The ABC’s new 72-year-old chairman plans to use a speech next week to argue a tsunami of American and British content is diluting Australian culture.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Big salmon hooks a sick media industry
Swaths of the Tasmanian media market have been gobbled up by a Liberal-linked PR firm. Its most recent client is the powerful salmon industry.
- Mark Di Stefano
Catherine West takes Nine’s helm – and crisis – from Peter Costello
The broadcast and publishing giant’s new chair is in the biggest role of her life, steering a company reeling through an uncertain future. Is she up for it?
- Max Mason and Sam Buckingham-Jones
Bruce Gordon, 95, bulks up interest in Nine
The billionaire increased his interest in Nine to more than 25 per cent, giving the billionaire businessman outsize influence just hours before a board meeting that resulted in the resignation of the company’s chairman Peter Costello.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Costello departure won’t end questions hanging over Nine
The media giant’s cultural crisis is far from over, but CEO Mike Sneesby and new chairman Catherine West have a long list of strategic questions to reckon with.
- Updated
- James Thomson
BBC, A&E withdraw popular channels from Foxtel as they go it alone
The News Corp-controlled broadcaster will also lose access to HBO shows if, as looks increasingly likely, Warner launches its platform in Australia next year.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Peter Costello resigns as Nine Entertainment chairman
The former federal treasurer’s position had been in the air after a run-in with a reporter at Canberra Airport last week.
- Updated
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Newlywed Rupert Murdoch cancels grand return to Australia
Long said to be Rupert Murdoch’s favourite newspaper, The Australian is turning 60 next month. He won’t be there to celebrate in person.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nine board meets hours after Costello incident with journalist
Nine Entertainment’s board met on Friday morning to discuss an altercation between its chairman and a journalist the night before.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
The execs behind an equity sale to save Australia’s ‘surfing bible’
Tracks Magazine has been published since 1970, and was sold to three corporate surfing enthusiasts in 2021. Now they’re selling equity to raise $2 million.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
