February
Your attention has been hacked. Here’s how to reclaim your brain
Life in the attention age is more anxious and more depressed, more isolated and less social. It cannot go on like this, right?
The obsessions that make Nagi Maehashi tick
The drive that took the RecipeTin Eats founder and bestselling author to PwC, Brookfield and out on her own is about more than simply selling cookbooks.
January
Think you know The Betoota Advocate? You probably don’t
The Betoota Advocate has spawned podcast and talent management businesses, and a raft of idioms. Now they just need to make some proper money.
The sweet irony of OpenAI’s DeepSeek beef
OpenAI thinks DeepSeek took its private data to train its models; the hearts of writers, artists, musicians and journalists around the world must bleed for it.
Joe Aston returns to the Financial Review
The author of ‘The Chairman’s Lounge’ will publish a monthly column with his former employer under a new commercial deal.
Why it’s an unhappy new year at Guardian HQ
The ructions at the Australian arm echo the reports of low morale and spiky political divisions at the left-liberal news outlet’s London head office.
OpenAI deal shows the value of journalism to AI giants
A commercial deal between ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and US publisher Axios is relatively small, but highlights the value big tech platforms should be paying for.
Amanda Laing joins Nine, Stan CEO departs in strategic overhaul
The company is simplifying its management and giving executives more responsibility for revenue growth. Several senior figures will depart as a result.
John Wylie’s Tanarra Capital takes Nine stake after share price slide
The former investment banker is known for pushing companies his firm holds stakes in, from Lendlease to Tabcorp, to make major changes and spin off assets.
December 2024
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.
Australian authors dominate Christmas book sales
Tim Winton, Helen Garner, Joe Aston and Nagi Maehashi – or RecipeTin Eats, as her website is called – are leading sales and helping independent bookshops stay strong.
You’ve seen this book everywhere. TikTok is responsible
The romance novel “Icebreaker” has sold almost 2 million copies since publisher Anthea Bariamis discovered it on BookTok, a forum turning the fiction industry on its head.
Industry super funds sell The New Daily
The New Daily, brainchild of former Industry Super chairman Garry Weaven, has sold for an undisclosed sum.
Donald Trump named Time’s 2024 ‘Person of the Year’
In an interview with the magazine, the president-elect said he plans to issue pardons to January 6 defendants “in the first hour that I get into office”.
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.
November 2024
The father-son rift that prefaced the break-up of an empire
A boardroom coup at John Fairfax Limited helped pave the way for the family to lose control of Australia’s oldest newspaper company.
Lonely Planet founders not content with giving away half their wealth
Tony and Maureen Wheeler are doubling down on their commitment to Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre with a big commitment to match donations.
Jamie Oliver’s editors should have seen this scandal coming
British publishers are scratching their heads as to how Penguin Random House UK could have left the celebrity chef’s kids’ book exposed to an A-grade furore.
October 2024
Washington Post won’t endorse a candidate. Staff, readers protest
An editorial supporting Kamala Harris was written but Amazon founder and newspaper owner Jeff Bezos reportedly intervened to stop publication.
August 2024
AFR journalist wins Kennedy Award for second year running
The award for Outstanding Finance Reporting is the latest in a string of honours for the investigative journalist Neil Chenoweth.