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This Month
John Howard cans Christmas drinks
It’s a poor season for Christmas cheer in Sydney. Particularly in its more conservative circles.
- Myriam Robin
Lachlan Murdoch cancels Christmas bash
The Murdochs aren’t having a Christmas party at their Bellevue Hill estate this year; Nine cuts jobs; ABC political editor’s questionable job ad placement.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
News Corp parties now come with HR warnings
The Murdoch-controlled company reminded staff that HR boundaries extend to the Christmas party, after a string of incidents last year.
- Mark Di Stefano
Rupert Murdoch steps out with Elena Zhukova, crates of wine
The billionaire media mogul was seen for the first time in public after exiting the News Corporation board last month.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Foxtel boss braces for ‘bumpy summer’ of sport without India, Poms
The West Indies and Pakistan tours will not draw the kind of TV audiences that India and England series do, says Patrick Delany.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
November
Stokes’ Seven West hires ex-Oz boss Chris Dore for national news play
The Australian’s former editor-in-chief will be a senior political columnist for the billionaire’s digital-only evening publication, sources said.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Guys, Sportsbet and Barni Evans have gone woke!
Sportsbet has done more than most to propagate male stereotypes through advertising. Now, it’s embracing politically correct language.
- Mark Di Stefano
‘Important signal’: Lachlan Murdoch in surprise Ukraine trip
The Fox Corp CEO’s visit comes as concern in Ukraine mounts over the future of vital US military and economic aid with the war with Russia showing no end in sight.
- Tom Balmforth
Guy Sebastian, David Beckham join Chemist Warehouse’s $600m-a-year party
Chemist Warehouse hosted 2000 people for an upfront event that was bigger than any media company’s; Fractures in the Schwartz Media ranks over Gaza coverage.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Inside Google’s mothballed plans to quit search in Australia
Emails filed in a Justice Department legal dispute show the lengths the technology giant was considering going to kill plans to force it to pay for news.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Media & marketing
Rupert Murdoch gets the Fox News treatment
A brutal book on the cable channel argues that its founder came to exercise less influence over the network than the politician it created – Donald Trump.
- Tina Brown
October
TechDay ends links with PR firm after ‘exasperating’ requests
What happened between TechDay and PR firm Archetype?; The Daily Telegraph’s new TV play; SBS’s ad revenue bucks the market.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones and Mark Di Stefano
Investors back activist’s call for News to sell REA stake
Starboard Value wants the Murdoch-family controlled media giant to separate from its 61 per cent stake in the Australian real estate business.
- Updated
- Joshua Peach
Judge lashes ABC’s PR strategies
It’s all fun and games to fire off at gadfly commentators. Doing so at judges, even if only by implication, is an altogether dicier proposition.
- Myriam Robin
News Corp, James Hardie spinner takes Eat, Pray, Love retirement
After a quadruple heart bypass in July, former News Limited spin doctor Greg Baxter retired from CBA in exactly the right way.
- Mark Di Stefano and Sam Buckingham-Jones
What newspapers say about the Voice to parliament
Before voters go to the polls on Saturday, editorials by leading mastheads have split on the constitutional recognition referendum question.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Voice to parliament
Seems nothing can melt No-vote hearts: Pearson
Leading Yes campaigner Noel Pearson urges supporters to maintain hope but says Saturday’s referendum appears lost and Australia was a “hard country now”.
- Maxim Shanahan and Michael Pelly
Hamish McLennan and the zombie Wallabies get Arab interest
The Rugby Australia chairman has fielded “interest” from Middle East investors looking for a chunk of the sport.
- Mark Di Stefano
Who’s to blame for News Corp’s $75m gambling problem?
The launch of gambling start-up Betr was supposed to be the next strategic play for News Corp. Just four months after launch and $75 million later, it was out.
- Zoe Samios, Sam Buckingham-Jones and Mark Di Stefano
Kerry Stokes spurns doing a Rupert, rides again
Billionaire Kerry Stokes renominates as director of Seven West Media; behind the ABC’s decision to block ChatGPT’s web crawler; The Market Herald’s rebrand.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones and Mark Di Stefano
