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News Limited’s senior executives have missed out on the top two senior executive roles reporting to CEO Robert Thomson in the new News Corporation, the publishing (and pay TV in Australia) arm to be split from the group later this year. Plus other media news.

There were clues in News Corporation filings on Monday about how much the company’s spun-off publishing entity will suffer from a weak advertising market and declining circulation.

News Limited continues to hack away at its staffing levels, with subediting duties at nine regional newspapers to be outsourced to AAP subsidiary Pagemasters. Plus, other media news.

Infighting hits Qld Greens … Overington recalls The Slap … News Ltd hacks dress for Xmas party …

Fairfax’s The Australian Financial Review will adopt the same subscription strategy online as The New York Times — but will it have the same positive impact?

The latest circulation figures — complicated by digital subscriptions — contain more bad news for newspapers, particularly in the Fairfax stable. But which paper bucked the trend?

George Megalogenis is packing up and leaving The Australian to write more books. Who else has left News Limited during the latest cost-cutting drive?

Stressed staff on News Limited’s Adelaide Advertiser are ruing the introduction of a new league table singling out their individual journalistic achievements by editors.

AAP’s old-school journalism is suddenly very much back in fashion as newsrooms shrink, Gideon Haigh reports in the sixth chapter of his investigative special for Crikey on the future of the media.

Crikey got its mitts on the latest media buying data — and it doesn’t make for pretty reading for print publishers. Foxtel and digital titles, however, have plenty to crow about.

Who’ll replace Neil Breen as Sunday Telegraph editor? Crikey assess the candidates to lead the nation’s most-read paper.

Journalism legend AN Smith could scarcely have foreseen the lecture series devised in his memory could have warped — 76 years later — into a brow-beating session equating Rupert Murdoch’s business interests with those of the Australian public.

Media octogenarian Rupert Murdoch has commenced his three week tour of his Australian backwater and Holt Street Kremlinologists have been busy piecing together his likely agenda.

Daily Telegraph editor Paul Whittaker’s place in News Limited’s power structure has received a major boost this morning following the departure of Sunday Telegraph editor Neil Breen.

The PM approached senior News Ltd executives today to complain about a story in The Australian that claimed she had set up a “trust fund” for a former boyfriend — and she won.

Kim Williams has seen the future — and it’s got a tattoo, a handlebar moustache and a CV long enough to stretch from one end of Holt Street to another.

Watch out Paul Kelly and Peter Hartcher: there’s a new political pundit in town. Former Treasury mole Godwin Grech has emerged from his hole. Plus other media news of the day.

In today’s Media Briefs: Smith v Murdoch: an exercise in vanity … Front Page of the Day … News Corp announces anti-corruption boss … Getty Images bought by private equity …