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Newspapers lay out their political endorsements.

Who’s backing who? Every major newspaper’s pick for prime minister

A slim majority of newspapers have gone against the expectations of the pollsters to back the Coalition to return to power.

  • Calum Jaspan

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ABC chair Kim Williams and ABC managing director Hugh Marks.

Media Watch’s Kim Williams take-down hands a win to ABC boss

The controversy with comedian Austen Tayshus has allowed the public broadcaster’s managing director Hugh Marks to step out of the shadows and make his presence felt.

  • Calum Jaspan
2GB Mornings host Mark Levy had his best survey to date.

For 2GB, there is life after Ray Hadley

The shock jock’s replacement, Mark Levy, has delivered on audience share.

  • Calum Jaspan
The ABC’s new Melbourne breakfast duo have not yet delivered a ratings boost.

ABC Radio sinks to new low in Melbourne ahead of election

ABC Melbourne has delivered its lowest ever share of the city’s radio audience, but the latest survey results were more positive for Kyle and Jackie O.

  • Calum Jaspan
Foxtel’s headquarters in Sydney. The company is being sold by News Corp.

Job cuts hit Foxtel, four weeks into new ownership

The pay TV and streaming operator has made 100 staff redundant after being acquired by British firm DAZN. 

  • Calum Jaspan
Sandilands threatened to take the radio show off the airwaves in Melbourne if ratings do not improve.

Kyle Sandilands threatens Melbourne exit as company makes more cuts

The KIIS FM host told listeners the Kyle and Jackie O show was not going to “super serve Melbourne and ignore our Sydney audience”.

  • Calum Jaspan
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The Brisbane Stadium logo submitted to IP Australia earlier this month.

Olympic stadium logo revealed as work starts on Victoria Park plan

Five weeks after Victoria Park was rubber-stamped as the site of Brisbane’s main Olympic stadium, the delivery authority’s focus has shifted.

  • Cameron Atfield
The last three staffers in The Associated Press’ Saigon bureau, reporters Matt Franjola, left, Peter Arnett, rear, and George Esper, second from right, are joined by two North Vietnamese soldiers and a member of the Viet Cong on the day the government of South Vietnam surrendered, April 30, 1975. One of the soldiers is showing Esper the route of his final advance into the city.

How a can of Coke and day-old cake led to iconic photo that went around the world

Peter Arnett and his colleagues had watched the last of the US Marines flee in a helicopter. Then they heard a telltale squeak in the stairs outside their office.

  • David Rising and Valerie Komor
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ABC staff label Kim Williams ‘arrogant’ over comedian imbroglio

ABC’s Media Watch has taken the public broadcaster’s chairman, Kim Williams, to task for allegedly labelling some regional staff “arrogant” and pressuring them to give a comedian airtime.

  • Calum Jaspan
Emma Pegrum (left) and Kate Hulett (right) record their A Piece of Kate podcast in Treeby, in the federal electorate of Fremantle.

Social climbers: How Perth independents are bypassing mainstream media to reach voters

Social media is playing a bigger role in political campaigns, but no WA candidates are doing it as effectively as Kate Hulett in Fremantle and Kate Chaney in Curtin.

  • Mark Naglazas

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