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The Guthrie writ: conversations with Mate 1 and Mate 2

In these extracts from his writ for wrongful dismissal, sacked Herald Sun editor-in-chief Bruce Guthrie recounts conversations with News Limited Chief Executive John Hartigan and Herald Sun Managing Director Peter Blunden.

Media briefs: Fairfax digital propagating p-rn… German robots sell anything…

Fairfax digital propagating p-rn… Ziff Davis to close PCMag print… German dinosaur robots can sell anything…

When did Murdoch learn of the News downturn?

News Corporation performance is slowing. Why didn’t Rupert Murdoch tell the AGM, asks Glenn Dyer?

Australian planets aligning for a Murdoch power play?

As the Sun King has flown into to Australia to deliver the ABC Boyer lectures the planets may be aligning to allow him to make one final major play in his home country, writes Peter Cox.

Can the Murdoch and Fairfax families support their debt laden public empires?

Whilst it is all very well for The Australian to plaster pictures of overpaid bankers across the front page, News Corp shareholders should be demanding that their leaders take a huge salary cut in 2008-09, writes Stephen Mayne.

Murdoch suffers from Wall St crash, but you wouldn’t read about it

It hasn’t been a brilliant crisis for Rupert Murdoch, but you wouldn’t read about it in any of his journals, writes Glenn Dyer.