Fairfax Media is bracing for a wave of industrial action down the eastern seaboard, with a pay-parity dispute threatening to pull mastheads from letterboxes and engulf The Age and the Australian Financial Review.
Australian Financial Review
Media briefs: Fairfax rules the airwaves … The Fin soars like Eagles
MTR has its work cut out for it, since it’s already slipped in ratings. Plus, Business Spectator’s new thespian, Nine cuts down Telstra and other media news of the day.
Media briefs: Merger of sorts at Qld Newspapers … AFR out to lunch
News Limited is combining some resources within the Bowen Hills bunker. Plus, AFR rips off the Financial Times, Apple challenges Google in ad market and other media news.
Media briefs: The Fin and the ASX … Town Hall number crunching …
Sometimes its hard for a newspaper to tell the difference between hundreds of protesters and hundreds of attendees. Plus, the AFL still doesn’t get it, the twits at Nine News and other media tidbits.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: System waste at Superpartners
Has Australia’s largest superannuation administrator accidentally turned its pockets inside out for a prize lemon? Which architect of the Your Rights @ Work campaign is presiding over a workplace where employees are being bullied? Plus more hot tips from Crikey readers.
Media briefs: Plugging holes at The Fin … latest radio ratings
The turmoil inside Fin Review has been plugged by a spate of new appointments inside the paper. Radio ratings: talk leads in Sydney and Melbourne rival emerges, plus other media news of the day.
Another Fairfax defector: Fin deputy editor to walk to The Oz
Australian Financial Review deputy editor Brett Clegg is poised to abandon the ailing business tabloid and move to The Australian on a $300,000 deal, according to media insiders.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: A foreign raid on Balwyn?
A colleague just advised me that a foreign investor recently bought up to 100 houses in Melbourne’s Balwyn area — in cash, too. As a local resident, I’m seriously concerned.
Newspapers, circulations, take it in the neck
The was some interesting spin on the newspaper circulation figures for the December quarter and 2009. But they all missed one telling point: Papers are irrelevant.
The Fin‘s run-of-the-million promo is nothing of the sort
The Financial Review’s “$1,000,000” subscription promotion looks like a cracker. But read a little closer and it seems the chances of getting your mitts on the moolah are very slim indeed.
Crikey Says: Hermit and trickster Mark Latham putting on the blitz
The Financial Review works hard to preserve its reputation as the most boring newspaper in the southern hemisphere, but once every fortnight a hermit turns up on the op-ed page to provide some distraction. Mark Latham. Remember him?
Trade unions, AFR, out of the loop on jobs
Two stories in The Australian Financial Review and other papers this morning illustrate just how out of touch both the paper and the Australian trade union movement are with the economy.
National newspapers fall off a cliff, bury news
Australian newspaper buyers have punished the national papers, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian in the latest audit period, but basically spared the rod on their state-based competitors.
Pot boils over at the Financial Review
Crikey’s story on The Australian Financial Review’s internal culture of bans and back scratching has stroke a note with many disgruntled insiders. The favouritism and cushy cliques continue…
The AFR’s internal culture of favouritism and cushy cliques
The world’s most expensive financial tabloid, The Australian Financial Review, has been accused of many things in its 58-year history, but its internal culture of ruthless favouritism and cushy cliques has for the most part escaped scrutiny, writes Andrew Crook.
All the powerful ladies, now put your hand up
How does feminism mix with power and the media? Now female pollies get the photoshopping treatment, but where are all the ladies on the Fin Review’s Power 2009 list? asks Helen Westerman
Fairfax knee-cappings and The AFR’s power lunch
The AFR Magazine today has produced its annual Power edition, which is a great read but misses a few key points.
Twitter’s unethical, according to the AFR’s new code
Staff at the Australian Financial Review are being asked to sign up to an ethics policy under which they could be disciplined — even sacked — for taking part in political debates.
Vale Fred Benchley
The Brisbane Times pays tribute to its former columnist and former Australian Financial Review editor Fred Benchley, who died on Saturday, age 67.
Kohler: Don’t flatter yourself, AFR
Business Spectator’s Alan Kohler responds to claims the site is plagiarising from the Fin Review by publishing article extracts: we aren’t, he says, and no-one’s reading them, anyway.
Advisers revel in Origin largesse
If there was any doubt whether investment bankers prefer to be acting for vendors or purchasers, those reservations would have been quashed after noting how much Origin Energy allegedly paid its financial advisers.
Has the Teflon Knight finally lost his lustre?
The likely decision to walk away from the ANZ chairmanship, one of the most sought-after boardroom roles, may signal the end for Eddington.
Banks — and AFR — do the ground work for a tax-free grab
The Australian Financial Review was quick to grab and endorse a much bigger grab for the public purse by the banks, led by Cameron Clyne of the NAB.
Latham lambasted for “meathead” diggers comment
From the grave, Latham has unburdened himself in the AFR on everything from Therese Rein (“less than glamorous”) to “meathead” diggers and their “limited intelligence”. He has been widely condemned.
Don’t fret the debt — an open letter
Twenty-one authors have signed a Nicholas Gruen-instigated opinion piece in today’s AFR, arguing that modest levels of government debt are a perfectly appropriate response to a major downturn.
