Today’s Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette apologised to its readers after running a cartoon last week that offended the township of Cooya Beach — one of the Gazette’s readership hubs. Plus other media news.
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Fairfax’s new social network for media comment
In a new move for digital journalism in Australia, Fairfax Media today launched its invitation-only portal for politicians and interest groups to share quotes, documents and photos to be used in news articles.
Simons: Liu case tests assertion journos should never reveal sources
Are there any circumstances under which journalists should reveal their sources? The instinct in the profession is “no”.
Rinehart will lose, and take Fairfax with her
Is Gina Rinehart a media dilettante and not the threat that many suppose her to be? Or rather, is she a cheapskate and unwilling to stump up the sort of money (more than $1.7 billion) that would guarantee control of Fairfax by buying it outright?
Media briefs: Global Mail born … Monckton TV … the FitzShameless …
Welcome to the neighbourhood, Global Mail. After a few teething problems — it didn’t quite launch at midnight as expected, and the site crashed briefly this morning under the traffic load. Plus other media news.
Crikey Says: Rinehart and mysterious ways of new media
Our newest media mogul is a keen observer of the online medium. And she’s not a fan.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Rinehart might be good for Fairfax
Crikey readers have their say.
Media briefs: Gina unauthorised … Prime boss boned … Age source demands …
There were more clues on Gina Rinehart in another unauthorised account of her life and very rich times in, ironically, another Fairfax title, the Good Weekend magazine, last Saturday. Plus other media news.
Business Spectator, Eureka Report for sale: the leaked profit figures
Leaked information from the information memorandum issued as part of the Business Spectator and Eureka Report sale process reveals profitability has gone backwards.
Helen Liu v The Age: could management end up in the clink?
One of the most important media law cases of recent decades will be decided tomorrow when Justice Lucy McCallum of the New South Wales Supreme Court hands finally hands down judgement in the case of businesswoman Helen Liu against The Age.
Media briefs: Shoebridge hangs Ten … green news online … Fairfax on IMF …
The Ten Network has raised eyebrows by hiring Neil Shoebridge, The Australian Financial Review’s media and marketing editor of the past nine years. Plus other media news of the day.
Truce in Melbourne property ad wars: Fairfax, Catalano deal
A truce has been declared in Melbourne’s real estate advertising wars, with Antony Catalano’s Weekly Review set to merge with Fairfax in a pioneering 50-50 joint venture.
The website Fairfax never owned
All seemed to be going swimmingly when Fairfax Media issued its annual report a few months back, except the glossy 128-page paean to CEO Greg Hywood’s savvy managerial skills claimed it owned regional newspapers it doesn’t.
Media briefs: Leveson latest … social media in Nth Korea … ABC breaches impartiality
In today’s Media Briefs: is there hope for social media in North Korea? … ACMA warns on networks lifting from Facebook … ABC breaches impartiality and more …
The Canberra reshuffle … at Fairfax
Stressed Fairfax hacks holed up in the warrens of Parliament House are dreading their return from holidays in January when they will be confronted with a new tri-masthead “Canberra bureau” dreamt up by new national managing editor Mark Baker.
Media briefs: IPA and shekels … Leveson latest … David Speers talks the talk
In today’s Media Briefs: If I had a shekel for every time I’d heard … Front page of the Day … NotW editor to blame for using Mosley story, reporter tells Leveson inquiry and more …
Media briefs: Pagemasters cuts … Leveson latest … Kyle’s new shocker …
In today’s Media Briefs: wut with the old, in with new at Pagemasters … Front page of the Day. …Leveson inquiry: NotW’s Neville Thurlbeck to give evidence …Austereo asks: should we sack Kyle? and more …
Journalism, Fairfax’s ‘rivers of gold’ and an inconvenient truth
Journalism is at the heart of Fairfax Media’s plans for the future, CEO Greg Hywood proclaims, and he deserves credit for doing so.
Media inquiry: what is your problem, Fink? asks Hywood
Team Fairfax — Greg Hywood, Gail Hambly and Peter Fray — arrived with a suggestion of attitude and began their presentation with assertion
Media power shifts: watch for a Stokes move on Fairfax
Control of Fairfax Media’s sprawling newspaper, online and radio operations is suddenly available for as little as $500 million.
JB Fairfax, flick go the shares, while masthead editors in power struggle
The internal machinations at Fairfax and News Limited surely tell us that we live in an age where the newspaper business is increasingly devoid of sentiment.
Black, white and read all over … not so say circulation figures
The latest metropolitan newspaper circulation figures provide the newbie CEOs at News Ltd and especially Fairfax Media with their biggest and most important tests.
Media briefs: Fairfax sans Fairfax … James Murdoch and NotW … MTV makeover …
In today’s Media Briefs: the newspaper that almost seized the future … MTV still ‘present’ — despite 13 redundancies, production cuts … Voice of UK’s Siri is now speaking out (to Apple’s chagrin) and more …
Real estate wars: Fairfax set to buy back half of Catalano’s Weekly Review?
Rumours are swirling this morning that Antony Catalano’s trailblazing Melbourne property glossy the Weekly Review has been negotiating with Fairfax Media to sell half the publication for between $35 and $40 million, with Catalano slated to return to the company he called home for 18 years.
Political snippets: Improved consumer sentiment is good news for Gilllard
The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment perhaps provides a clue as to why Labor has been improving its standings in the recent opinion polls.
