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Emily Watkins — Reporter

Emily Watkins

Reporter

Emily covers all things "media" for Crikey and is based in Sydney. She has previously worked for the ABC's Media Watch and reported on courts, crocodiles and occasionally UFOs for the NT News.

ABC sticks to the script in its first annual public meeting

The meeting was an opportunity for ABC leadership to tout the broadcaster's popularity and cultural impact, though it failed to mark much of a change from its recent message.

The Barnaby Joyce tryst is not the first of its kind

Barnaby Joyce and his minders could have learned some media management lessons from how then-NT Chief Minister Adam Giles revealed his partner and former staffer's pregnancy in 2015.

Court suppresses Tele's Rush defence ... ABC apologises to Rudd ... why Fox's Disney deal was done ...

A court has ordered the complete suppression of the Daily Tele's defence in the Geoffrey Rush defamation suit. Plus other media tidbits of the day.

Catalano lawyers up ... Falconio story 'too detailed and graphic' ... Ginny Stein made redundant ...

Former Domain CEO Antony Catalano has sent his former employer, Fairfax, a legal letter over claims published by The Australian Financial Review yesterday.

The huge stories that could have been killed under the government's proposed new laws

The government says it will water down parts of its foreign interference bill that journalists were most worried about. But the bill is still broad, and there are concerns about how journalists will be affected.

Media roundtable: was it ethical of the Tele to publish its Barnaby Joyce story?

Opinion is divided on what was one of Canberra's biggest "open secrets".

Domain a 'boys club' under Catalano ... Yahoo7 restructure ... Good feud guide ...

The Australian Financial Reviewreports today that shortly before former Domain CEO Antony Catalano suddenly left the business, a formal complaint about the the workplace culture at the recently-listed company was lodged.

AFLW "gender equality storm" ... bring back Dundee ... chaos at Newsweek ...

The decision to replace the host for an AFL women's competition program with a man is working itself up into a "gender equality storm". Last year's host Tiffany Cherry says the decision to replace her as host of Women's Footy with Clint Stanaway is a "significant step back".

Vale Michael Gordon ... good feud guide ... exclusive watch ...

Building bridges between the ABC and The Australian. Plus other media tidbits of the day.

The real reason Channel Seven elevated the opinion of a neo-Nazi

Seven News Melbourne's neo-Nazi interview was some pretty stomach-churning tabloid TV. But when did the commercial news bulletins start going so low?