Crikey senior journalist Andrew Crook, Crikey media writer Margaret Simons and Crikey deputy editor Jason Whittaker discuss today’s story about News Limited’s leaked rebranding to News Australia.
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Simons: what the News Ltd rebranding exercise tells us
Leaving aside all the marketing gobbledygook, the significant things come under four headings in News Ltd’s rebranding document.
Leaked: News Ltd bites the dust
News Limited will change its name in an attempt to cure its perception as an “arrogant newspaper company” that is “difficult to deal with”. Crikey has exclusively obtained the leaked documents.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: News Limited is no more
News Limited is no more, with Rupert Murdoch’s Australian empire to adopt a new name and extensive marketing strategy to counter an “arrogant” public perception, according to confidential documents leaked exclusively to Crikey.
The logic of an inquiry into a media model under siege
The media inquiry is less an attack on freedom of speech than a search a solution to the basic problem of the newspaper model. Good luck fixing it.
Gillard versus News: it’s war
Crikey media wrap: Prime Minister Julia Gillard remains in a fierce dispute with News Limited over a column written by Glenn Milne in The Australian on Monday, just as the government decides whether to hold a media inquiry in Australia.
Buttrose, Murdoch and the case of the cagey News Limited spokesman
The anonymous News Limited spokesman quoted by the ABC as refuting allegations by Ita Buttrose that Rupert Murdoch wanted her to have a person followed as part of an investigation for a story in the Sydney Tele is a cagey fellow, writes Richard Farmer.
Political snippets: An anxious federal Labor
Having police determine whether a criminal offence has occurred over the use of a credit card in the name of Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson is a frightening prospect.
Beecher: logical for government to fund media diversity
There is no democratic or economic rationale to support suggestions that News Limited should be forced to divest any of its Australian newspapers.
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.
Cameron grilled as Gillard targets News Ltd
It was the day during which the UK prime minister became the latest News of the World victim, with PM David Cameron badgered for 139 minutes in parliament with questioning over his close relationships with News International executives. Cameron conceded that he had spoken to News International execs regarding the now defunct BSkyB deal but declares that he […]
Rupert Murdoch’s letter to all News Limited staff
The following message from Rupert Murdoch just landed in all News Limited employees’ inboxes, reports Margaret Simons.
Rundle: broken abroad, News is losing its war against the Greens
It was instructive to see News Corporation’s fortunes falling, as the Australian Greens were rising.
Brooks arrested, top cop resigns over NotW scandal
It may have been the weekend, but there’s been no rest for the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. In just three days it’s caused the top UK police chief to resign, seen a News Corp executive arrested and forced Rupert Murdoch to publicly apologise.
Simons: News Ltd internal review will include ‘independent oversight’
The internal audit of editorial expenses announced by News Limited CEO John Hartigan yesterday will include “an element of independent oversight” following conversations between the Chair of the Press Council, Julian Disney and News Limited executives.
News will investigate contributor spending in Australia
News Limited will examine its books in Australia to look for payments to private investigators or other parties that aren’t “legitimate services”.
New Herald and Weekly Times policy – and how it sits with the mothership
Margaret Simons recently posed some questions about the new Herald and Weekly Times policy and how it sits with the News Limited Code. Simons got some answers from HWT’s Genevieve Brammal.
Media briefs: Nine News apology … CMail outs Thorpie … NotW fallout …
International slip isn’t Limited … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … Courier Mail outs Thorpie … Life lesson for Michele Bachmann: read the small print if “slavery” appears. …
Mitchell and The Oz (part II): ‘it’s now war’ with the government
Several people close to The Australian say the paper is looking strident on many fronts. And as government tensions escalate one declares “it’s now war”. Crikey continues its profile of the national broadsheet under editor Chris Mitchell.
Media briefs: Cameron’s News address … journos in peril …
Imagine if Julia Gillard visited a Fairfax talk-fest under the guise of a “senior cabinet minister” to hide her identity. Well that’s what British Prime Minister David Cameron did last night. Plus other media news of the day.
Media briefs: News gets papers confused … a little more Weiner … massive tablet growth predicted
In today’s Media Briefs: TV News in Melbourne goes into Kim Duthie overdrive … Will the new editor know where to go? … Front Page of the Day … and more …
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.
Curtain up, wall down at News Limited websites
June 2011 is going to be an interesting and historically significant month in media. The Mumbrella 360 conference tomorrow will serve as the venue for an announcement of News Limited’s plans to erect paywalls around online content.
Bob Brown v the media
In an illuminating interview with politics professor John Keane, Bob Brown canvasses a range of subjects including the quality of the climate change debate and his war on News Limited’s “hate media.”
Dick Smith: Rupert, come back to Oz, we need you
Dick Smith has issued a plea to Rupert Murdoch: come home and provide much-needed leadership in acting against global warming. His newspapers have failed the cause.
