The copyright industry could dramatically reduce piracy if it gave consumers what they wanted, research from Essential shows.
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Idiot’s Guide to the Convergence Review: public and community broadcasting
The Convergence Review gives non-commercial media, including the ABC, SBS and community broadcasters, a nice deal on spectrum, the suggestion of access to more money, and a pat on the back for doing a good job.
Devamation: George Pell pursues legal action over a Deveny tweet
Cardinal George Pell’s lawyers pursued legal action against Twitter after comedian Catherine Deveny tweeted a photo which Pell’s lawyers say “conveys … seriously defamatory imputations”.
Attard out as Global Mail editor amid crisis talks
Monica Attard has been moved aside from her position as founding editor of fledgling journalism website The Global Mail.
Media briefs: Budget may never come for The Oz … Leveson latest … Seven’s NRL bid …
In today’s Media Briefs: Leveson inquiry: government ministers granted core participant status … Seven waits in wings for NRL bid … French journalist Romeo Langlois held by Farc … MasterChef cooks with spam on Twitter and more …
Bum steer from The Hun on massage lecture
The organisers of a Melbourne University’s popular Rad Sex and Consent week have hit back at a Sunday Herald Sun report of a bum massage “furore”, slamming the page eight piece as a “confused” beat-up.
Idiot’s Guide to the Convergence Review: local content in global age
While the Convergence Review’s final report put forward a radical rewriting of the basis for media diversity regulation, on local and children’s content this is a strongly status quo report.
Oz, AFR embark on another round of the pay-TV piracy wars
Nick Cater, editor of The Weekend Australian, is one of the lesser known Murdoch editorial heavyweights in Australia.
Media briefs: KAK gets photoshopped … French voters get around Twitter ban
The organisers of a Melbourne University’s popular Rad S-x and Consent week have hit back at a Sunday Herald Sun report detailing a bum massage “furore”, slamming the page 8 piece as a “confused” beat up. Plus other media news.
Tagged: the most ‘engaging’ US social media network
According to prominent metrics company comScore, it isn’t Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest that engages users the most. It is a San Francisco based social network called Tagged, writes Sam Laird.
Global Mail teething: tensions and changes for Attard’s baby
The Global Mail is mulling a new direction, with senior management considering luring managing editor Monica Attard away from the day-to-day coalface in favour of a senior writing role.
Facebook is profitable, but $86 billion is still speculation
Facebook’s IPO Roadshow, 30 minutes of video Kool-Aid that you can’t fast forward, contains all the usual elements of Silicon Valley hype.
Idiot’s Guide to the Convergence Review: content standards
How does the Convergence Review balance its deregulatory vibe with its assertion that content standards are still necessary, because the community expects them and because failing to restrict access to some content can do harm?
Google pays no Oz tax on $940m ad sales? How?
Yesterday we learnt Google Australia has paid no tax on an estimated $940 million in web search advertising revenue generated locally, writes Chris Seage, a tax consultant and former ATO audit manager.
Media briefs: Murdochs to the bar … farewell Newt … Facebook lies …
There is growing speculation among legal circles in the UK that at least three former News International executives may find themselves called to the Bar of the House of Commons to answer charges of contempt of parliament.
Mayne: ASX missing in action on Packer’s pay-TV sale
For a media proprietor, James Packer is one of the least communicative public company leaders in Australia.
Rundle: the inevitable splits and spats of the News fallout
These spats may be the least of the Murdochs’ worries.
Crikey Says: WSJ goes into bat for Rupert again
Do the editorial writers at The Wall Street Journal know something we don’t? Seems the US side of things are beginning to get decidedly nervous …
One down, 364 to go for a year without the internet
The Verge’s Paul Miller decided to do something drastic: live life without the internet for a year. Miller explains the changes and temptations in day one of his self-imposed disconnection.
Zuckerberg to officially become one of the world’s richest men
Facebook’s public offering will provide Mark Zuckerberg his ultimate ‘like’, cementing the 27-year-old social media guru as one of the world’s richest men, reports Brian Womack and Lee Spears.
Rupert and The Sun have a good ol’ giggle at speech impediments
They are a fun loving lot at the London Sun - the paper Rupert Murdoch says holds his views. Check out how the paper greeted the appointment of speech impaired soccer manager Roy Hodson, writes Richard Farmer.
Rupert Murdoch still a firm hand at the wheel
Stop the presses, hold the internet, News Corp issues shock statement about an 81-year-old geezer. The gist: man owning a swag of shares gets support from fellow board members…
Rupert at the cross-roads — is it jail or a Packer pay-TV mop up?
Given the industry that has emerged to sledge and analyse Rupert Murdoch after 10 months of the phone-hacking scandals, you soon learn who is worth listening to.
Idiot’s Guide to the Convergence Review: content competition
When it comes to convergence, it’s clear that content is king.
Guy Rundle: The other media story that dwarfs the News fiasco
Quietly this week, while the UK was in uproar about the activities of the last big media company in a dying industry, something of far greater import happened in the world of media and information.
