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The ABC office in Ultimo.

Play School staffer sues the ABC over fixed-term contracts

The case, brought by the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, has been filed in the Federal Court on behalf of Tom Scott, a digital producer on the children’s show.

  • Calum Jaspan

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Why is a pair of legacy media companies controlled by a dysfunctional dynasty so popular with investors?

The Murdochs are stuck in a multibillion-dollar family feud. The empire they’re fighting over is flourishing

Why is a pair of legacy media companies controlled by a dysfunctional dynasty so popular with investors?

  • The Economist
Post Newspapers’ new printing press.

Australian Financial Review mulls print return in WA as press monopoly broken

The Australian Financial Review is considering bringing back the printed edition to WA via a new press owned by a popular independent newspaper.

  • Hamish Hastie
An advertisement for Kayo Sports promoting their exclusive Fox Footy AFL coverage on Saturdays.

Kayo’s Super Saturday footy is about to get more expensive

Less than two months into its ownership by British streamer DAZN, Foxtel is raising the entry-level price of its sports streaming app, Kayo.

  • Calum Jaspan
2GB’s Ben Fordham is one of Nine’s biggest earners, after Ray Hadley [left] departed Nine in 2024.

Staff shake-up at 2GB, 3AW fuels sale speculation

The sales teams for Nine’s audio division, which houses the radio stations, are moving out of the media company’s headquarters in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

  • Calum Jaspan
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has defected to the Liberal Party.

Jacinta Price finds electoral silver lining for defeated conservatives

The Liberals are devastated and the Coalition is dead, but the senator is claiming credit for the Greens’ demise.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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David Hill.

Why this award-winning Fox veteran no longer watches cable news

Australian-born David Hill will collect back-to-back lifetime achievement awards this week for his contributions to sports television, including decades working for Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch.

  • Michael Koziol
Wendy McMahon

CBS News chief forced out amid tensions with Trump

Wendy McMahon told staff “it’s become clear the company and I do not agree on the path forward”. Her exit comes with CBS’s parent company Paramount in talks to settle a $US20 billion lawsuit brought by Trump.

  • Michael M. Grynbaum
BBC presenter Gary Lineker gets into a car outside his home in London.

‘Final straw’: BBC’s Gary Lineker quits over social media controversy

The BBC’s highest-paid presenter and long-time face of English football coverage resigned over a post widely condemned as antisemitic.

  • Rob Harris
Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his appeal over the finding that he is a war criminal.

The seven words that ended Ben Roberts-Smith’s $1.5m appeal bid

The former soldier hoped a secret recording would salvage his legal case, but it was a siren call that dashed him on the rocks.

  • Harriet Alexander

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