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Basil Zempilas.

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
The expected 2.7 per cent spending boost compared with the same time last year is a cause for hope.

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

Newsmax chief executive Chris Ruddy, has turned the cable channel into a pure vehicle for Trumpism, attacking Fox News for including occasional dissenting voices.

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
MasterChef is one of Ten’s most popular franchises.

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
Jarrod Villani ran Network Ten until earlier this year.

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
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Alan Jones outside court.

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
The ABC News ticker in Times Square.

‘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
Southern Cross chief executive John Kelly took the top job last year.

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
WiseTech founder Richard White (right) at his compound in Sydney’s Bexley with Josh Simons, CEO of Vinyl Group.

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
Index

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
New ABC managing director 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
The ABC has surrendered footage from a controversial episode of Four Corners.

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
Donald Trump takes part in an ABC presidential debate in September.

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
Platforms that strike commercial deals to pay media organisations for the use of their news content will get relief from the new tax charge.

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
WiseTech founder Richard White (right) at his compound in Sydney’s Bexley with Josh Simons, CEO of Vinyl Group.

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
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Alex Jones declared bankruptcy in 2022 and was forced to liquidate his assets.

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
Shay Segev, the chief executive of DAZN, at the Olympic Games in Paris earlier this year.

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
Contorl of Fox News was a key part of the Murdoch family feud.

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
Lachlan Murdoch has put Foxtel up for sale. DAZN is one company that is taking a look.

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
Rupert Murdoch’s attempt at cementing Lachlan’s control over the media empire was rejected by a Nevada court.

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

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