Perth’s newspaper war has jacked up a notch with News Limited’s Sunday Times set to launch a Saturday “lunchbox edition” next week to take on bitter rival The West Australian, Crikey can reveal.
Wan
Stokes mounts board coup at WA News
Kerry Stokes has achieved his long held ambition of joining the board of West Australian News. Now, as Stephen Mayne reports, the real work begins.
WAN theatre review: comedy, tragedy and farce
WA Newspapers’ EGM was a mixture of comedy, tragedy and farce, reports former WAN board member Bert Reuter.
Conflicts here, conflicts there, conflicts everybloodywhere
Conflict of interest crops up all too frequently in Australian business, political and media life and unfortunately we’re seeing quite an avalanche right now, writes Stephen Mayne.
Beecher: Editorial independence requires editorial competence
The bunfight over board control of WA Newspapers is revealing how people with no background in journalism or media exert increasing influence over the editorial pillar of functional democracy, writes Eric Beecher.
Why Steve Harris should be the next WAN chairman
Kerry Stokes is spending up big on WA News but institutions don’t share his vision, writes Stephen Mayne.
The business of conflict in The West
The conflicts between The West Australian’s editorial coverage and the Stokes commercial interest will be huge, so the best way to avoid this for Stokes not to be chairman., writes Stephen Mayne.
Editorial independence fires are Stoked at The West
Very few independent observers would argue with Kerry Stokes’ central points in his sledge of editorial management at The West Australian newspaper, writes Margaret Simons.
It’s all over for the WAN board
The four non-executive directors of West Australian Newspapers sealed their fate over the weekend with a bizarre suicide pact, writes Stephen Mayne.
