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Murdoch’s News plan avoids one question: why invest in papers?

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.

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Tips and rumours

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

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Crikey analysis: how the papers responded to media reform

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.

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Murdoch ups the dowry for News Corp’s publishing arm

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?

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Rupert’s quandry: News Corp results show publishing’s dead

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.

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Our trust in media: ABC still leads as commercial media struggle

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

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FT goes ‘digital first’: cost pressures force job cuts

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.

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How the internet killed GDP as a reliable economic barometer

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.

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2012 Crikeys: the best and worst journalism this year

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.

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Crikey quiz! Know your colorful racing identities, a tabloid teaser test

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.

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Creation of a Murdoch man: Robert Thomson’s rise and rise

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.

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More bad news for papers in Germany, Nth America

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

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The walking unread: newspaper circulation continues long decline

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?

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Tips and rumours

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

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The era of the readers’ editor … over before it started

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.

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Brave News World: is the era of the editor over?

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.

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The trouble with deadlines: Gillard was well and speaking

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.

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Fresh data shows carnage across newspaper and mag sales

Fresh data shows plummeting sales among newspapers and magazines — although there are a few standouts which are holding their ground.

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If I ran Fairfax … I’d fling ‘underperformers and fairy-floss makers’

We’ve asked an assortment of veteran Fairfax watchers what they would do if they were running the company. We’ve roped in stockbrokers, media analysts, former editors, the journalists’ union and readers.

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Time for a circuit breaker at Fairfax

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.

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Ex-Fairfax editors on cuts: bold, brave, danger for democracy

Risky, long overdue and a threat to democracy: that’s the verdict of former Fairfax editors on the dramatic overhaul of Fairfax’s metropolitan newspapers announced this morning.

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Here’s $1m for your newspaper … do you want it? Aussie editors respond

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.

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Warren Buffett plays the Gina card in media play

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.

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The regulation revolution of the Convergence
Review

A single, revolutionary concept forms the basis of many of the recommendations of the Convergence Review.

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Newspaper site paywalls: dribbles of gold, not rivers

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.

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