The latest 2011 circulation figures indicate that it was a mixed-to-good December quarter for some titles, an average half-year for others and another miserable 12 months for the majority of newspapers and magazines.
News Ltd
Tweeting Rupert skips earnings grilling from analysts, hacks
For the second straight quarter, News Corp’s executive chairman and controlling shareholder Rupert skipped the quarterly earnings call with analysts and journalists this morning.
Bolt, Day reveal why ACMA should move on Lachlan Murdoch
Perhaps the most striking recent example of Australia’s supine cross-media ownership laws was the decision by ACMA to allow Lachlan Murdoch to remain as a director of News Corp while clearly influencing Network Ten.
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.
News Ltd moves: Williams’ ‘strong response’ to protect Whittaker
The material concerning Paul Whittaker came to me from a person who would normally be referred to as an impeccable source.
Whittaker in the firing line at News Limited
The editor of The Daily Telegraph, the controversial Paul Whittaker, is in the firing line at News Limited as the new CEO, Kim Williams, introduces a top-to-toe renovation.
Complaints to Press Council double — so will it beef up?
Those who are inclined to write off the Press Council might be given pause by the fact that the number of complaints it receives has doubled since October.
Latham says Tele breached his privacy, but editor unapologetic
Mark Latham has re-engaged in his slanging match with News Limited after what he calls “premeditated” attack by The Sunday Telegraph that framed him as an elderly women hater.
Electric finish to top year of partisan journalism from The Tele
More propaganda from The Daily Telegraph — this time on electricity efficiency. Let’s dissect a particularly blatant example.
Stewart grilled over sources in Artz case, but won’t have a bar of it
Amid a torrid exchange between The Australian’s Cameron Stewart and Bill Stuart, for Artz, Stuart repeatedly pressed the journalist to broadly disclose his sources among Australia’s key counter-terrorism agencies.
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.
Mayne: Hartigan exit a classic Rupert power play
Without any need to consult Telstra, Kerry Stokes or James Packer, the trio that together own 75% of Foxtel, Rupert was able to poach the well-regarded Foxtel CEO Kim Williams to take News Ltd in a different direction.
@BigHarto’s resignation letter: I implore you to honour my legacy
When Rupert handed me my letter of resignation to sign yesterday, he said that my decision came as no surprise to him.
Williams, sans boys’ club machismo, breaks News Ltd mould
Kim Williams’ elevation will bring some changes, and alter key dynamics in Australia’s largest newspaper publisher.
Crikey Says: Rupert’s going to live forever
New blood was one of the reasons cited for News Ltd CEO John Hartigan’s departure to make room for Foxtel’s Kim Williams, a man with a very different management style more suited to take on the challenges of the digital area.
Media inquiry: ‘marketplace of ideas’ not working that well
The public hearings of the federal government’s media inquiry got under way this morning with a distinctly anti-statutory regulation tinge.
Mayne: News Ltd launches pre-emptive attack on Finkelstein inquiry
News Ltd is working hard to discredit the Finkelstein media inquiry before it has even begun public hearings in Melbourne tomorrow.
Artz case: Vic police ‘dumbfounded’ by level of info AFP gave to The Oz
Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police had a sharp disagreement about the extent of confidential briefings given to The Australian newspaper in order to persuade it to hold off publication of its scoop in a joint anti terrorism operation.
When The Oz muscles the AFP, that’s a story
It is impossible to separate the extraordinary behaviour of News Limited editor Paul Whittaker, revealed in the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday without also considering the context of media power in Australia.
Crikey Says: Media responsibility, and how to wield it
What kind of responsibility comes with owning more than 70% of Australia’s metropolitan and national news journalism?
News Ltd paywall comes down on its journos too
Journalists and editors at News Limited will be forced to pay to access their own work online, with staff only receiving a 50% discount on a digital subscription rather than a free one.
Crikey Says: Andrew Bolt’s readers save the day
Andrew Bolt’s rights have been trampled on, freedom of speech has been denied to him and he has been silenced. Sort of.
Rundle: carbon tax a monument to Labor, and testimony to a burial
The carbon tax will be Labor’s historical triumph; if a post-Labor Senate can lock it in, then it will be, for the Gillard government, a monument –- and like all monuments, testimony to a burial.
