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Yesterday
Haigh and Lalor eye a longer boundary for cricket writers
Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor spent decades reporting on the sport. Now they’re hoping readers will pay for specialised coverage with Cricket Et Al.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
This Month
- Updated
- Earnings season
Foxtel on the block as News Corp confronts reality
The publishing and broadcasting multinational says there is acquisition interest in its pay television arm after a year-long study of its assets.
- Updated
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Analysis
- Media & marketing
News Corp finally confronts the grim reality of Foxtel
After nearly 30 years as a shareholder, the media giant has gone public with a bid to offload the pay TV business. Any new owner will confront big challenges.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Foxtel for sale; Viktor Shvets’ market lesson; Sydney home eyes record
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Analysis
- Media & marketing
Murdoch thinks Fox, News Corp worth more right wing
At the heart of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s bid to change the family’s “irrevocable” trust is an idea Fox and News Corp are more valuable as conservative outlets.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
July
Streaming, catch-up services on verge of eclipsing TV advertising
Revenue growth has slowed significantly across the media and entertainment sector – particularly in news – a widely followed annual PwC survey has found.
- Kylar Loussikian
Look out Google, here comes SearchGPT
OpenAI has unveiled a prototype of SearchGPT, a new web search chatbot that could rival Google, and change how people navigate the online world.
- Gerrit De Vynck
Rupert Murdoch’s secret family battle for his empire’s future
The media baron has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back.
- Jim Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler
- Opinion
- Media & marketing
The three strategies that saved the Financial Review
It had a competitive advantage of deep engagement with the Australian business community. But that was just the starting point, writes outgoing editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury.
- Michael Stutchbury
Google inks renewed media bargaining code deals – with a catch
Google has been quietly renewing deals worth tens of millions of dollars with Australian publishers but has added a clause allowing it to cancel them after each year.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Fox News Australia? Sky News Australia may be forced to rebrand
The News Corp-owned broadcaster has announced a “major transformation project” and a relocation – just as its Sky licence comes to and end.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
A letter and PowerPoint about News Corp made this activist fund $120m
A failed bid to merge with Fox Corporation pointed out the inherent value in a couple of News Corp’s assets. One investor cashed in on the rise.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Rod Carnegie: corporate giant felled at the final hurdle
Sir Rod Carnegie soared across the corporate sky in the ’70s and ’80s but was thwarted in his attempt to secure full Australian local control of mining giant CRA.
- Andrew Clark
Who are the highest paid ASX 200 CEOs?
New research shows that ASX 100 CEOs earn on average 50 times more than the average Australian adult.
- Hannah Wootton
How Airlie’s Granger got his small-cap fund off to a cracking start
Portfolio manager Will Granger has more than doubled the benchmark with his new Small Companies Fund. He is now backing this little-known retailer stock.
- Sarah Jones
Billionaire ‘French Murdoch’ behind Le Pen’s rise
Vincent Bollare’s TV channel and related media outlets have normalised and amplified the far-right leader’s message ahead of this weekend’s French elections.
- Benoit Berthelot and Tara Patel
What’s Peter Dutton got against David Crowe?
Midwinter Ball speeches are meant to be roasts, and we’d never suggest journalists are off-limits. But Dutton’s dig at Crowe is starting to form a pattern.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
June
Nine considers expelling AI bots from checking out its content
Major publishers including the New York Times already restrict what services such as ChatGPT can see. Others say AI “scraping” is an “extinction-level event”.
- Nick Bonyhady
Calls to ban Facebook and Instagram in Australia
The heads of major media organisations say Meta’s refusal to renew about $70 million in commercial deals with news outlets will likely lead to job losses and newspaper closures.
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- Hannah Wootton
Fourth gen Murdoch joins the family trade
Lachlan’s son joins the family business, arriving in News Corp’s Sydney newsroom.
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- Mark Di Stefano
