Yesterday
Lachlan Murdoch returns home to executives on the edge
The media mogul returns to Australia with global CEO Robert Thomson, grappling with another News Corp restructure.
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- Mark Di Stefano
This Month
- Opinion
- Workplace
Baidu’s PR boss was fired for being a workplace tiger mum
When the of head of public relations for China’s Google was fired over blunt remarks about staff, managers everywhere lost an honest voice.
- Aaron Patrick
Plan B in the works as ARN-Anchorage bid collapses
Here’s what Street Talk reckons could unfold in coming weeks.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
ARN throws a Hail Mary to revive collapsed radio merger
Takeover target SCA gave a dim view of the revised plan, which doesn’t include private equity firm Anchorage Capital.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Opinion
- Media & marketing
New laws risk the end of free sports on TV
The government has one chance of modernising how broadcast rights are organised. Otherwise, iconic sporting events will be harder to find.
- Greg Hywood
Showtime! Media CEOs’ last stand with Foxtel over future of TV
Years of lobbying by free-to-air networks and Foxtel have come down to this week, when two crucial pieces of legislation are set to go before the Senate.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
The researchers influencing billions in global marketing
The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute is sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, McDonald’s, Mars, Nestlé and PepsiCo. Its findings guide global business decisions.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Sportsbet’s secret NRL gambling funnel
The bookmaker used a shell company to shield involvement in a tipping competition, which skirted advertising regulations and promoted gambling offers.
- Mark Di Stefano
Seven makes Albo pay for Perth snub
If you want to know the cost of inadvertently snubbing Seven in Perth, look no further than the front page of Wednesday’s The West Australian.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
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- Media & marketing
$250m deal to reshape radio market collapses
Southern Cross Austereo’s regional TV stations proved the sticking point for Anchorage Capital Partners’ deal. ARN is left to try and salvage a way forward.
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- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Ten and Wilkinson win order for Lehrmann to pay up
Justice Michael Lee ordered Bruce Lehrmann to pay most of Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson’s court costs – but had strong words for Ten’s conduct.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Sad halting of the press in WA
The Australian Financial Review has built a publishing model based on premium digital subscriptions. But it is still sad that from May 22, no one in Western Australia will be able to read a hard copy version.
- The AFR View
After losing a deal, Stokes’ newspaper pursued Forrest
The West Australian published dozens of critical articles about Fortescue’s founder after he refused to buy trucks from a related company.
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- Aaron Patrick
Stokes’ anti-AFR price rise could breach competition law: Samuel
Billionaire Kerry Stokes has faced political criticism – and calls for an ACCC investigation – for forcing The Australian Financial Review print edition out of his home state of WA.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones, Tom McIlroy and Tom Rabe
Billionaire Kerry Stokes takes it all very personally
In the media business, he who controls distribution, controls all.
- Mark Di Stefano and Myriam Robin
2022: Financial Review's 70 years of Australian business
The highs and lows of Australian business over the past 70 years, narrated by former Financial Review columnist Trevor Sykes.
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‘Intense’ News Corp restructure to target premium content
A challenging ad market dragged down News Corp’s news publications, but CEO Robert Thomson said it had extended a lucrative commercial deal with Google.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
AFR to stop printing in WA after Seven’s ‘abuse of power’
Nine has been forced to pull its print editions of The Australian Financial Review from Perth after Seven West Media demanded double the cost of printing.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Seven, WIN turn off ‘loss making’ Ten in Mildura
A joint venture between Seven West Media and WIN will shut down at the end of June, cutting off the aerial signal to Network Ten in parts of regional Victoria.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Stefanovic’s Indigenous teen clanger, brought to you by Sportsbet
The online bookmaking giant turned the 19-year-old into a walking sandwich board for the company, showing (once again) it just can’t help itself.
- Mark Di Stefano
