August 2024
Everyone is angry at Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, even its musicians
The MSO’s decision to cancel a guest pianist for his Gaza war commentary, then backtrack, has united pro-Israel and pro-Palestine activists in disdain.
- Michael Bailey
January 2024
ABC tasks senior staff with creating ‘culturally safe’ newsroom
In an email, the public broadcaster’s news chief urged journalists to ‘pull together’ and ‘stay united’ amid escalating tensions and allegations of racism.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
November 2023
Crikey owner Private Media slashes workforce by 15pc
The company held an all-staff call on Thursday afternoon to announce it would need to cut its costs, primarily by reducing its headcount by eight.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Journalists can’t be writers and activists
The willingness of reporters and editors to sign anti-Israel petitions calls into question their professional independence.
- Michael Gawenda
June 2023
Seven West staff revolt at Kerry Stokes’ West Australian
“It’s become a toxic environment,” reads one response to a staff survey circulated internally and leaked to The Australian Financial Review.
- Mark Di Stefano and Nick Bonyhady
April 2023
Hundreds of SBS staff write to bosses over pay, conditions
After securing a new pay deal for ABC staff, the media union is ramping up pressure on the SBS.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Regional journalist jobs go in News Corp restructure
News Corp’s regional journalists in places such as Cairns, Canberra, Geelong and Blacktown have been told their job is at risk as cost-cutting bites.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Media rivals unite against ‘chilling’ federal privacy law proposals
Giving the Information Commissioner powers to search for and seize documents would be a “significant regulatory overreach”, a major media coalition has warned.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
March 2023
Up to 200 jobs likely to go at News Corp amid strategy shift
News Corp Australia boss Michael Miller wants a focus on reducing subscriber churn this year, as the business forges ahead with a global job cutting plan.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
June 2020
- Exclusive
- Superannuation
Media Super poised for $62b Cbus merger
Following an extensive tender process, Media Super could retain its own brand in a potential merger with Cbus scheduled for as soon as early 2021.
- Joanna Mather and Michael Roddan
March 2020
Media Super changes CEOs, but chairmanship still eternal
Gerard Noonan's tenure as chairman is older than the nation's Superannuation Guarantee.
- Myriam Robin
Creative industry faces 'catastrophic' COVID-19 shutdown
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher will meet with arts and culture leaders on Tuesday to formulate a government response to the "catastrophe" faced by musicians, actors and film-makers after mass gatherings were banned.
- Max Mason