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”.
Herald Sun
Media briefs: Hun backs Doyle … Fox v Gawker … NotW hire …
In today’s Media Briefs: Herald Sun’s premature Doyle endorsement … Front Page of the Day … Met bosses were guilty of “poor judgement” in hiring NOTW man … Fox mole in legal hole as Gawker raises gossip stakes and more …
Media briefs: Schooling Gerard … pressure on Murdochs … Age lifts Hun video
Retired right-wing cartoonist Larry Pickering has portrayed Julia Gillard as a dildo-wielding rapist in a cartoon on his website. Plus other media news of the day.
Media briefs: Sandilands’ falls … Schembri on air …. BBC cuts jobs …
In today’s Media Briefs: Sandilands ratings lowest in three years … Herald Sun’s all-body experience … Front Page of the Day … ACCC delays Foxtel/Austar merger decision … again … BBC News cuts: 140 posts to go and more …
Media briefs: News hits back … Hun’s paywall launch … Leveson latest …
In today’s Media Briefs: from the desk of Williams: don’t believe them … Paywall drops on Herald Sun site … Front page of the day … Leveson asked to publish Motorman files 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.
Media briefs: The price of a Hun story … occupying inboxes … Leveson latest …
In today’s Media Briefs: how News hid the phone-hacking scandal … ‘Choppergate’ case before Fair Work Australia … Cycling fans mobilise against Nine coverage and more …
Media briefs: Col Allan return? … Hun’s risque Quiz Master … AFR revolution …
Col Allan’s return to earth … Herald Sun’s %#@% of a Quiz Master. … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … AFR launches “revolution” campaign and tells readers: We weren’t good enough …
Media briefs: Stevens to The Oz … Subway to sub … Leveson latest …
Matthew Stevens joins The Australian business exodus to the Australian Financial Review. Plus, an Oz sub with your sub and other media news of the day.
Sideshow Alley: Bottoms to that
This week’s Sideshow Alley winner earns the prize for using the word “bottoms’ in a story about the President of the United States.
Herald Sun staff told they’re out as slash-and-burn begins
News Limited’s Melbourne arm has moved on its parent company’s plans to slash costs by 20% over three years, calling in Herald Sun staff with cash offers to leave the paper.
Media briefs: Eddie’s on the Wayne … Rabid koalas in Oz .. Peter Roebuck dies …
Why Eddie championed Lil’ Wayne …. UK “celebrities” attacked by rabid koala in Oz … Front Page of the Day. …The Department of Corrections … Peter Roebuck, we hardly knew you and more …
Get Baldy: Herald Sun’s blatant campaign to knife Simon Overland
On Friday, in one of the most extraordinary editorials ever seen in Australian journalism, the Herald Sun claimed in a straight-faced manner that it had not run a “vendetta” to get rid of former Victoria Police chief commissioner Simon Overland.
Media briefs: Bachelard Jakarta bound … Qantas watch … SBS’ $4b shortfall …
In today’s Media Briefs: Bachelard to take on Jakarta … Qantas, err, Quantas … Seven to overhaul Weekend Sunrise … $4m shortfall at SBS, Youtube preps 96 channels and more …
Double-page ‘correction’ for Bolt’s racial discrimination
The Herald Sun has been ordered to publish two humiliating double-page corrections spelling out why two of Andrew Bolt’s articles shamed light-skinned members of the Aboriginal community.
Media briefs: The Kiss … ABC redundancy bill doubles … Facebook timeline …
Female authors fight back … ABC redundancy bill doubles … Reporters Without Borders to open Tunisia bureau … The Department of Corrections and more …
The controversial Bolt profile
It’s the Andrew Bolt profile everyone’s been talking about. Anne Summers wrote nearly 7000 words on the Herald Sun’s most notorious columnist. Check it out while the paywall is still down.
Blow-ups aplenty At Home With The Bolts
If the makers of At Home With Julia are looking for a sequel, then the last few days would provide plenty of illuminating material for a comedy called At Home With The Bolts.
No beet-up, but Hun happy to throw meat in retail war
The Herald Sun has rejected conflict-of-interest concerns over its editorial coverage major advertisers, after some startling synergies heaped doubt on News Limited’s hallowed journalistic division between church and state.
Media briefs: Carr on Foxtel … Hun mum on source …
SMH’s Good Living reheats dish two weeks in a row … Hun mum on story sources … Bob Carr on Foxtel arts and ads … Hacking defender gets hacked and more …
Bolt decision: guilty of discrimination, judge declares
Federal Court judge Mordy Bromberg has found right-wing scribe Andrew Bolt and his publisher Herald & Weekly Times guilty of a serious breach of the Racial Discrimination Act in Melbourne this morning.
Media briefs: Rudds’ airport woes … Hun’s loaded poll …
In today’s Media Briefs: airport troubles for Rudds … More updates on the issue they won’t update … Online Poll of the Day … Julian Assange publishers to release autobiography without his consent and more …
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 …
News Ltd management: Vulnerable? No. Skittish? Yes.
How skittish the mighty News Limited looks following the weird Julia Gillard-Andrew Bolt-John Hartigan interaction over that nasty little Glenn Milne column.
