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No contest for today’s Chunky Bits Daily Leadership Beat-Up Award. The ABC won hands down for hanging continuing speculation about a Kevin Rudd challenge on this bit of internet nonsense.

Did The Australian misrepresent ABC audience data? Managing director Mark Scott certainly thinks so — and told staff so in a missive yesterday. The data shows Scott is right.

Remember how in June of last year, News Ltd boss Kim Williams bagged the ABC for not being a newsbreaker? Plus other media news of the day.

Tony Abbott receives as much media scrutiny as the Prime Minister — it’s where he gets it from that is different. A Crikey investigation reveals some interesting findings.

Following months of negotiation, The Guardian has issued an apology over sensational stories about corruption in the Mexican media. And other media tidbits.

ABC newsrooms are on alert for a major announcement at 1pm today. What’s going down?

ABC news boss Kate Torney today announced a major funding boost, with implications for news-gathering operations across the country.

Melbourne ABC radio host Jon Faine is in hot water for a “lapse of standards” in two interviews. Should the ABC have stood by him — or reprimanded him?

Our commercial media have struggled to regain trust with Australians, while the ABC remains far ahead.

Crikey readers make their views known.

The ABC is fighting hard to block an FOI request to reveal the salaries of some of its best-known presenters. Crikey asks Aunty insiders whether the public should have the right to know what they’re paid.

Packer byline watch. Is James Packer contemplating the life of a columnist? How else to explain the slimmed-down casino mogul’s accumulation of newspaper bylines, which are multiplying faster than a horde of boozed-up blackjack players on a Saturday night at Crown. Packer’s latest effort lobs in the “Summer” section of today’s Sydney Morning Herald, where he lauds the […]

The Chaser’s Chas Licciardello was tapped by the ABC’s 7.30 to replace the much-loved Clarke and Dawe segment. Does this mean the end for the comedy duo?

“Senior representatives” from both sides of politics, Rob Oakeshott tells the ABC this morning, have contacted him and expressed a willingness to reconsider the GST. It’s just that they don’t want to talk about it until after the next election.

BBC director-general George Entwistle has walked after a story went seriously wrong. Should Mark Scott, “editor-in-chief”, do the same if the ABC stuffs up?