This Month
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
Network Ten wavers on turning off broadcast across swath of WA
The regional signal – a joint venture between Seven West Media and WIN Corporation – will remain on air only after more funding from the federal government.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Cat Daddy time! How ARN, Southern Cross could resume merger dance
The obvious step is for ARN to approach Catalano and nut out a deal which would effectively see ACM assume Anchorage’s original position.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
June
Nine considers expelling AI bots from checking out its content
Major publishers including the New York Times already restrict what services such as ChatGPT can see. Others say AI “scraping” is an “extinction-level event”.
- Nick Bonyhady
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.
- Updated
- Tess Bennett
Southern Cross rejects Catalano’s offer to sell his newspapers
The operator of regional television networks and the Hit and Triple M radio brands says it does not want to buy a portfolio of regional publications.
- Updated
- Kylar Loussikian
- Updated
- Seven West Media
Seven West in major executive reshuffle as it cuts $100m in costs
Analysts have warned the structural challenges facing the free-to-air television industry would hinder the broadcaster’s ability to grow its profit margins.
- Updated
- Zoe Samios
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