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From what has appeared in print and from talk among brokers, there’s a fear in the Murdoch camp that many investors, especially his big US supporters, don’t want to be found owning a print-skewing company.

Your morning tea with John Howard and Albrechtsen … where is Rebekah Brooks? … newspaper chiefs and their high salaries …

Crikey crunches the numbers on how the newspapers have covered the federal government’s proposed media reforms — and finds the coverage heavily negative, with few alternative views presented.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is spinning off its publishing arm. But with ad revenue falling and the cost of newsprint going up, is it a wise business decision?

News Corp’s quarterly results show exactly why the company wants to hive off publishing — it’s not making serious money. That’s a pyrric result for Rupert Murdoch, who’s fighting hard to keep papers alive.

Our commercial media have struggled to regain trust with Australians, while the ABC remains far ahead.

The Financial Times — ahead of the pack on digital revenue gathering — will go finally go “digital first” and pare back its newspapers. A number of jobs will be cut.

The shift from newspapers and physical retailers to the internet has dragged down GDP — but that isn’t a bad thing in itself. It’s the economic measure that may now be wrong.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, Crikey hands out awards for the best and worst journalism in a year which brought us various media reviews, the usual fare from The Australian … and a very high-profile prank call.

Think you know your news? We’ve put together 50 of our favourite tabloid titles for Crikey readers to work out. Take the test and see if you can put a name to the media moniker.

Rupert Murdoch last week announced Australian Robert Thomson would be CEO of News Corporation’s new publishing division. Crikey spoke to those who’ve witnessed his career up close.

More journalism jobs are set to go as major papers in Germany, the United States and Canada take drastic cost-cutting measures.

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?

So, what about the 2016 presidential race? … no papers for Griffith … alcohol and a charity auction don’t mix …

You won’t see The Sydney Morning Herald second-guessing itself on its op-ed page any more. The paper has ditched its readers’ editor position after a little over a year.

Now we can compile our own news feeds, does the world need editors? Their power is diminishing, writes Gideon Haigh in the fourth chapter of his investigative special for Crikey on the future of the media.

Overnight Julia Gillard came down with a nasty stomach bug. But according to the nation’s newspapers she was on her feet delivering a speech to the Asia Society and the Economic Club in New York.

Caught between the threat of a new owner and the demands of a skittish sharemarket, Fairfax needs to reconstitute itself to survive, writes Peter Browne of Inside Story.

Editors of some of Australia’s biggest newspapers are divided over whether they would accept philanthropic donations, after the LA Times accepted a “no strings” US$1 million grant. Scott Barnes reports.

Warren Buffett’s investment vehicle will spend $142 million to buy 63 daily and weekly newspapers from a company called Media General Inc. It has all the hallmarks of Gina Rinehart’s media play.

The grand experiment on erecting paywalls for news content online took another step yesterday, with News Limited releasing figures — sort of — for how many people have signed up for digital subscriptions to The Australian.