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The Australian Financial Review’s new TV partnership with Channel Nine has started strongly, topping rival Alan Kohler’s business show on ABC.

Paddy Manning exposed the incestuous nature of business journalism in Crikey. It raises bigger questions about who finance journalists represent, writes ex-business hack Jim “Mr Denmore” Parker.

Fortescue Metals Group paid for travel and accommodation for multiple journalists at the Bo’ao forum, but you wouldn’t hear it from News or Fairfax.

Why is The Australian Financial Review spruiking a book by one of its writers on the death of Fairfax? There’s a slew of such books coming out — it may test Fairfax’s tradition of openness.

There’s plenty of fodder from News Limited over the weekend — not the least the flying dog that wasn’t. Plus other media gossip.

Fairfax has shed jobs again. Today, it’s senior management shown the door (or given new titles). Will it pave the way for another round of broader cuts — or lead to more copy-sharing across the mastheads?

After a “messy delay” a “dog’s breakfast” that “fails the public interest test”. And that’s just one newspaper. Crikey wraps coverage of the federal government’s media regulation reforms.

Help us identify this video of ‘police’ attacking two men overseas … which paper is going up in price again? … we tell you who’s first in line to get The SMH …

It’s cheaper to buy a house than rent one, according to a story in The Australian Financial Review. We apply the Crikey Get Fact test to that rather bold statement.

Sunday Mail ed’s brutal sacking. The editor of Adelaide’s The Sunday Mail, Megan Lloyd, has been removed from the job by News Limited’s Sydney bosses after 25 years with the company. Crikey understands Lloyd was given the heave-ho on Wednesday night and was not offered another position in the company – a development that has […]

The Australian Financial Review is the latest newspaper to outsource subediting in a bid to cut costs — and it’s not the only problem the troubled newsroom is facing.

The Australian Financial Review is now a paper for business, rather than about business. The consequences are becoming obvious, write Crikey’s Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.

Another editor leaves Fairfax, The Week magazine finally shuts its covers and all the best media news of the day.

The jewel in the dinted Fairfax crown is apparently The Australian Financial Review — just ask the paper itself. Plus the Church of England dumps its News Corporation stock, more Elveden arrests in London and other news of the day.

Fairfax journalists returned to work this morning after 36 hours on strike, but not in time to breathe life into anaemic editions of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Matthew Knott and Andrew Crook report.