Yesterday
Coverage of Basil Zempilas rival unfair, imbalanced: press watchdog
The Seven West-funded Independent Media Council has upheld three complaints about negative coverage of the Perth mayor’s opponent.
- Maxim Shanahan
Retailers buoyed as shoppers swarm Boxing Day sales
Customers are also predicted to splash out a further $2.4 billion during the last days of December, research shows.
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- Adrian Black
This Month
Trump-loving cable network Newsmax to launch in Australia
ADH TV, launched by former broadcaster Alan Jones, will bring the right-wing news channel by expanding under the Newsmax Australia brand.
- Kylar Loussikian
Ten writes TV licence values to zero as losses balloon to $322m
But the broadcaster, now owned by Paramount Global, said it was optimistic about the future as it repositioned itself for a world where streaming dominates.
- Kylar Loussikian
Gillon McLachlan hires former Ten executive to run Tabcorp’s Sky Racing
Jarrod Villani was a KordaMentha partner who sold the ailing broadcaster to CBS, now Paramount, before running the business for several years.
- Zoe Samios
Jones vows to fight charges as details emerge of new alleged assaults
In his first public remarks since his arrest, former radio king Alan Jones denied indecently assaulting anyone. Fresh charges were laid relating to a 10th alleged victim.
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- Maxim Shanahan
‘Libel warfare’: ABC payout to Trump sends chill across US media
There are now fears that Trump, who has threatened libel lawsuits against news media for decades, could use presidential power to muzzle the press.
- Anna Nicolaou, Christopher Grimes and James Politi
Paramount’s Network Ten snaps up three regional broadcast licences
The seller, Southern Cross Media, has been trying to offload them for several years. It said it was in talks to sell others in Tasmania, Darwin and Broken Hill.
- Zoe Samios
Rich Lister-backed Vinyl Group in equity raise to fund acquisition
Sole lead manager Peloton Capital was rounding up investors at 10¢ a pop for a fully underwritten accelerated rights issue, sources said.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Immersive
- AFR announcements
The surprisingly small details that broke our biggest stories of 2024
Our reporters take you behind the scenes to reveal how they broke some of this year’s most engaging stories.
- Lucy King and Daniel Reti
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- Hugh Marks
Former Nine boss Hugh Marks to lead ABC
The executive who pulled off the broadcaster’s merger with Fairfax and helped lobby for big tech to pay for Australian content starts his new job in March.
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- Zoe Samios
ABC to get $126m post-election funding injection
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland will also seek to make law the five-year funding agreements Labor committed to at the 2022 election.
- Ronald Mizen
Trump wins $24m defamation payout from ABC America
The outcome of the lawsuit marks an unusual victory for the president-elect in his ongoing legal campaign against national news organisations.
- Michael M. Grynbaum and Alan Feuer
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Big tech should not be above the law of the land
In general, the last thing Australia needs is a new tax. But Meta’s thumbing its nose at Australia’s pioneering regulation justifies Labor’s attempt to lay down the law to the tech giants.
- The AFR View
Richard White-backed Vinyl Group set to acquire Concrete Playground
Vinyl Group is becoming a serial media acquirer, picking up The Brag Media, Mediaweek and now Concrete Playground.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
US judge blocks The Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’ Infowars
Christopher Lopez stopped the parody news site The Onion from buying the Infowars website, ruling that a bankruptcy auction did not result in the best possible bids.
- Dietrich Knauth
DAZN chief executive lands in Sydney as Foxtel buyout talks progress
Shay Segev’s visit comes at the same time as Rupert Murdoch has returned to the country for the first time in six years and as News Corp assesses bids for Foxtel.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Murdoch ‘Succession’ tropes can’t hide a dilemma for investors
The Murdoch family feud makes for fabulous drama, but for long-term investors it masks a vital question.
- James Thomson
Foxtel’s UK suitor calls in Bank of America for advice
The group, backed by billionaire Len Blavatnik, is understood to be working with BofA’s telecommunications and media team.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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- Murdoch family case
Logan Roy’s death morphed into a real life Murdoch succession drama
Shortly after the fictional patriarch died on television, the family behind the News and Fox empires began to plot life after their patriarch, Rupert.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones