Stop the presses, hold the internet, News Corp issues shock statement about an 81-year-old geezer. Apparently Rupert Murdoch’s hands are still firmly on the wheel.
Daily Telegraph
Media briefs: Hun jumps gun … Tele‘s shifty 50 … Nuance to close …
News Limited’s The Daily Telegraph outdid its tabloid brothers and sisters today with its coverage of the Reserve Bank’s interest rate cut (well, its angle was “50 reasons the Big Four banks MUST pass on the full interest rate cut”.
Media briefs: Rann rams Oz … Sunny Coast rival … Sly Bailey a dud …
In today’s Media Briefs: Mike Rann rips into The Australian … Is Trinity Mirror CEO Sly Bailey the world’s most under-performing media executive? … US TV reports SBS exclusive -but ignored by Australian media and more ..
More managers go in News Ltd rationalisation
The ructions inside News Limited have continued with the resignations of two senior executives in Diana Eilert and Tim Sligo.
Mark Latham’s Tele complaint to the Press Council
Today Crikey reproduces Mark Latham’s complaint to the Press COuncil.
Electric finish to top year of partisan journalism from The Tele
More propaganda from The Daily Telegraph — this time on electricity efficiency. Let’s dissect a particularly blatant example.
Media briefs: Leveson latest … Sandilands v staff … James Murdoch to exit? …
Brilliant tabloid work by The Daily Telegraph. Plus, JK Rowling tells of press attention’s impact on children, James Murdoch departures “may herald his exit from papers” and other media news.
Media briefs: A Harto-off … SMH online chaos … Nine debt strife …
In today’s Media Briefs: SMH online in chaos … Nine debt problems for shareholders … Neville Thurlbeck rejects request to help phone-hacking investigation and more …
Labor Senator brands Daily Tele’s Rudd front page a red herring
Labor Senator Doug Cameron has accused Daily Telegraph editor Paul Whittaker of beating up a fake front page story on Kevin Rudd’s return to the leadership to distract from claims he used Australian lives as bargaining chips during an anti-terror raid.
Political snippets: A campaigning paper
The Sydney Daily Telegraph is clearly on the campaign trail.
Media briefs: New NotW claims … Brown’s newspaper licences … the political hashtag …
Sydney’s Daily Telegraph should be applauded for this fine interest rates/Melbourne Cup quinella. Plus the latest from the Department of Corrections and other media news of the day.
Media briefs: NYT lost in translation … Bolt’s ex exists … Sunrise not broken …
Nice to see Andrew Bolt’s one-time fiancée Sue Walshe coming out in Saturday’s Age following Crikey’s revelations last Tuesday that she actually existed and that the duo were definitely engaged. Plus other media news.
Paul Whittaker: editor of the country’s most-feared newspaper
You may not know Paul Whittaker but you do know his boss, Rupert Murdoch. Pugnacious, proud and confident, the 42-year-old Whittaker, the new editor of Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, is already causing a stir by laying into Barry O’Farrell, writes Paul Barry.
Political snippets: Cracks in the strange LNP partnership
There was always something strange about the combination of the Queensland Liberal and National parties into a single Liberal National Party.
Media briefs: Close to you … Age v locals … Daily Tele apology …
In today’s Media Briefs: Town fights back … Age promotes rival … Daily Telegraph story defies laws of nature … Front Page of the Day … journos flock to LinkedIn and more …
Media briefs: Tele beat-ups … Oz’s digital challenge …
Another day, another complaint about political reporting in The Daily Telegraph. But, was that really an exclusive? and other media tidbits of the day.
Mighell to sue News Limited over ‘assaulting’ story
Victorian Electrical Trades Union state secretary Dean Mighell will sue News Limited for an attack in two of its tabloids that wrongly accused him of admitting to physical assault.
Taking up the Whittaker challenge: examining The Daily Tele’s GST coverage
This week, in the latest salvo in The Daily Telegraph’s war with the Gillard government, baby-faced editor Paul Whittaker decided to lay down a challenge to the office of communications minister Stephen Conroy.
Media briefs: Bet on bad PR … Hywood fires back …
In today’s Media Briefs: the columnist you can’t read … Oz scoop, except for the Fin … Hywood hits back on ALP data story … Front Page of the Day … and more …
Fairfax exec questioned in NotW phone hacking scandal
Executive, who has also worked in senior positions at the Daily Telegraph since his arrival in Australia in 2004, held senior editorial roles at the News of the World at the time of Dowler hacking.
The News of the World news that Murdoch’s OZ papers forgot
The majority of Australian News Limited papers have ignored or buried revelations regarding the News of the World scandal, write Andrew Crook and Leigh Josey.
Wankley Awards: Stefanovic ‘sex stance’ in News Ltd state-of-origin wars
There’s nothing like a good state-of-origin war between The Courier Mail and The Daily Telegraph. But when a TV star calls for a fellow employee to withholding bedroom favours from his boss, you know a Wankley is just around the corner.
Newspaper campaigns don’t have much to do with the public
They’re often waged in your name. But are the newspaper campaigns for accountability, justice, recognition and low, low prices really for the public good? For tabloid papers around the country they’re as much about circulation-driving populaism. And at News Limited, awards.
Political snippets: The Federal Government is always in a hurry
One feature of this federal government is that it is always in a hurry.
News’ revenge: editorial pages rain down on Brown’s crusade
News Limited has struck back against claims by Bob Brown it is misrepresenting the climate change debate, accusing the Greens leader on its editorial pages of cracking under the pressure of increased media scrutiny.
