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 …
Herald Sun
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.
Andrew Bolt sulks then fires back
News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt has returned from self-imposed exile to launch a frenzied defence of free speech by using his regular column and radio slot to attack the prime minister.
Media briefs: More jobs go at Ten … Google & AP fund future journos …
Crikey enjoyed this interesting piece in Saturday’s Herald Sun on how the Melbourne’s Spring Fashion week is rolling out the red carpet for pregnant mums. But it was the accompanying photo that caught our eye…
Mayne: Murdoch only champions free speech away from home
It has been a full month since the Murdoch phone hacking scandal blew up and, after more than 30 contributions across various media platforms, Stephen Mayne finally got a rise out of the empire today.
Nixon book launch: Adler eavesdrops on a revealing Hun news conference
The old Hard Rock cafe might seem like a weird spot for a book launch, but it seemed fitting for the bludgeoning News Limited journos received this morning at the launch of Christine Nixon’s Fair Cop at the ”Bourke Room” at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel. With the Prime Minister looking on, Melbourne University Press publisher Louise Adler took the opportunity to hit back at News following […]
Is the Herald Sun offering to donate its Black Saturday-related profits?
If you’re a public figure and you think News Ltd’s war against you can’t get any worse, and you have nothing to lose by taking them on — well, they want you to know this: it can, and you do, writes Jeremy Sear.
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.
Exposed! The secret Crikey ABC emails the Herald Sun wants you to see
A Herald Sun journalist has lodged a Freedom of Information request with the ABC for all emails and other correspondence between me, other Crikey staff and Mark Scott and the ABC’s public relations people.
