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Sophie is Europe correspondent for News Corporation Australia based in London. Her role includes covering all the big issues in Europe reporting for titles including The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, daily and Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and Brisbane’s Sunday Mail and Adelaide’s The Advertiser and Sunday Mail as well as regional and community brands. She has worked at numerous News Corp publications throughout her career spanning more than 20 years and was media writer at The Australian, based in Melbourne, for four years before moving to the UK in 2024. She regularly appears on Sky News Australia.

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On demandMedia

Customers tune in to streaming bundles

Cost-conscious consumers are increasingly signing up to monthly deals which help reduce their streaming charges.

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MediaMedia

Disrupt Radio incoming chair, Michelle Guthrie.

New station not too disruptive … yet

Start-up radio station Disrupt Radio has garnered a small audience in its first year, and hasn’t stopped plans to expand across Australia and overseas.

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Media chaosMedia

Nine boss Mike Sneesby agreed to be a torchbearer for the Paris Olympic Games. Pic Jac Magnay

Profoundly disappointed: Nine CEO Sneesby lashes out at strikers

The media company is in turmoil after hundreds of publishing staff walked off the job for five days on Friday amid a breakdown in pay negotiations.

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MediaMedia

Nine AGM at One Den Denison St, North Sydney. CEO Mike Sneesby. Photographed Thursday 11th November 2021. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 211111

‘Angry’ Nine staff to strike after pay offer rejected

Nine’s publishing division is set for disarray over the next five days after staff voted to walk off the job, with strike action to include those covering the Olympics in Paris.

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Media changesMedia

Editor of the AFR Michael Stutchbury. Picture - LinkedIn

AFR chief Michael Stutchbury resigns after 13 years

Nine Entertainment’s business publication The Australian Financial Review has announced its new editor-in-chief after veteran Michael Stutchbury steps down.

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Prime time bossMedia

Channel Seven Spotlight executive producer Gemma Williams. Source: Seven.

New Spotlight EP’s plans to revamp troubled show

At just 25 Gemma Williams has been appointed executive producer of Seven’s Spotlight program and she’s determined to make the show a success.

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News bulletinsBusiness

Television news presenters L-R: Mark Ferguson and Rebecca Maddern from Channel 7 and Peter Overton from Channel 9.

Anchors nervous as TV’s 6pm news war intensifies

The nation’s two major commercial TV networks face intense pressure to win the ratings for the 6pm news amid turbulent times in the media industry.

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Public broadcasterMedia

Viewers quizzed about ABC’s impartiality

The public broadcaster is asking its audience to rate its key news and current affairs programs and determine whether their programs are “accurate and impartial.”

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Media DiaryMedia

Russel Howcroft new 3AW morning show co-presenter. For Hamish McLachlan column. Picture: David Caird

Nine’s ‘must-see investigation’ anything but for two of its hosts

Is it any wonder free-to-air TV viewership is diminishing when two of Nine Entertainment’s prominent radio hosts openly admit they don’t watch the network’s prime-time programs?

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Switched offMedia

Journalist Stan Grant appearing on SBS TV to give the Elder in Residence Oration 2024. Source: SBS.

Stan Grant a ‘happier’ man since quitting media

The former ABC television presenter has lashed out at the media and says he doesn’t watch the nightly news anymore.

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