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Australian publishing assets are dragging News Corp down, and hiving them off can’t come soon enough for shareholders. Plus, some shareholders want to ditch chairman Rupert Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch will take home almost $US70 million a year under the new deal.

“Class warfare” is a confected term sprayed about across the nation’s newspapers of late to shut down policy debate. But funny how it only applies to the rich …

The real story of government debt is much more complicated than News Ltd papers claim. And there’s a deep irony in their campaign against it, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.

Labor and the opposition are both failing voters. But our newspapers have failed the public as well, and addressing that is much harder. Crikey reflects on a fortnight which has reflected poorly on almost everyone.

A magnum of pinot noir to celebrate an alleged dodgy deal: another day at ICAC. Remember when News Ltd backed media reform? Bernard Keane does. Oliver Yates’ $10 billion green warchest. Your invite to dinner with Rupert Murdoch. And is Nathan Tinkler finally broke?

News Ltd and the Coalition have previously backed far more draconian regulation of newspaper operations than that proposed by the Gillard government. How times change.

After four years, The Punch is being subsumed into part of News Ltd. Is it about time? Plus a distinct lack of fact-checking at The AFR.

Media ownership is a notoriously difficult issue — both for politicians and the press. Bernard Keane explains why governments today face challenges their predecessors didn’t have to deal with.

What began as a smear campaign against the Prime Minister became a major media story only a few days ago, when it stopped being merely a News Ltd smear campaign.

Labor is looking more like a government than at any time since 2009. And some don’t like it — mainly the editors of The Australian and The Daily Telegraph.

The silent Attorney-General … What’s this about patents … Abbott has some front … Rock and Roll Hall of Fame …

The domestic economy isn’t the basis for the RBA’s judgment about interest rates this afternoon, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.

Once-great institutions are under threat; what might supplant them is unclear; reputations afford no protection. So what will media look like in 20 years? Gideon Haigh presents the first in a multi-part Crikey investigation.

The trolling debate is merely the mainstream media doing what it’s always done: try to make money from enraging readers. But it’s unlikely to work.

Media redundancies have banished important reporters in science, health and environment. It’s bad news for understanding important issues, says the Australian Science Media Centre’s Lyndal Byford.

Kim Williams rails at the “scumbag theft” of internet piracy. One solution is right in front of him, but he doesn’t want to accept it.