Rear Window

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 StefanoColumnist

Jun 12, 2024 – 6.02pm

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The multi-decade shambles in the traditional news business shows little sign of sorting itself out. And while attention is focused on ABC News, News Corp and Nine Entertainment (our publisher), at the local end, things couldn’t be more dire.

Consider Antony Catalano and Alex Waislitz whose foray into newspapers is fading fast. Last month, they were trying to flog 14 storied titles such as the Newcastle Herald, The Land and The Canberra Times to Southern Cross Austereo.

Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent.