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Chief executive of News Corp Robert Thomson (Image: AAP/David Crosling)

News Corp heads make another killing at payday

Along with the Murdochs, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson brought home an extravagant pay package in 2018-19. Just don't expect to hear about it in The Herald Sun.

The Roosters win the 2019 NRL grand final (Image: AAP/Dean Lewins)

Finals not so grand as footy audiences disappear

Promoters will be worried after audiences for both the AFL and NRL grand finals were down on previous years. What's behind the drops?

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How Morrison is mimicking the Trump media playbook

Fresh from the US and with a new nationalistic spin, Scott Morrison has some new talking points. Is Australian media prepared to counter them?

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A short history of the media promising us hypersonic space planes 

Sydney to London in just four hours! Have you heard the news?

Former ABC chairman Justin Milne. Image credit: Mick Tsikas/AAP.

Justin Milne leaves the big bad city behind

After the headache that was the 2018 ABC leadership scandal, former chairman Justin Milne has escaped to the country.

Alan Jones says 'down, down' with Coles

Alan Jones has called for his listeners to boycott Coles. I'm sure the 2GB ad sales team is just thrilled.

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What Seven's cuts really mean for troubled network

Seven West Media's cuts are likely to be the first of several hacks into the company's $1.3 billion cost base. Will it be enough?

Editor-in-chief of <em>The Australian</em> Chris Dore. (Image: AAP/Dan Himbrechts)

What will the Oz do once all its sensible contributors abandon ship?

You can't pump out propaganda without some genuine news and relatively sane commentary to tie it down. The Oz no longer has that capacity.

News media continues its desperate war against the Google monopoly

In the fight between Google and traditional news media, Google has demonstrated that it doesn’t need publishers. Perhaps publishers need to learn that they don’t need Google.

Jordan Shanks addressing his Clive Palmer legal threat (Image: Friendlyjordies/YouTube)

Clive Palmer's latest defamation threat is the new norm for online content

There's nothing unusual about politicians sending legal threats to media companies, but small publishers and private citizens increasingly need to watch their words too.