Australian Associated Press board to discuss future of wire service, which is 45% owned by News CorpNews agency Australian Associated Press, whose 180 journalists provide much of the nation’s daily news and photos, is facing an uncertain future as major shareholders Nine Entertainment and News... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-02 01:40:44 UTC ]
Redesign inadvertently breaches international humanitarian law. Plus, News Corp unruffled by consumer campaign on climateThe ABC has been forced to ditch a new logo it designed for the relaunch of Q+A with Hamish Macdonald after inadvertently breaching the international humanitarian law that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-28 01:08:37 UTC ]
Over the past five years, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been quietly building a major position in the U.K. radio Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-02-25 22:25:24 UTC ]
Watchdog says Daily Telegraph cartoon conveys offensive stereotypes about Middle Eastern men but is justified in the public interestA cartoon published in a News Corp newspaper which conveyed offensive stereotypes about Middle Eastern and asylum seeker men did not breach press standards because... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-17 05:58:27 UTC ]
Nearly five months after News Corp announced it was launching a product billed as a “generous aggregation” of news and the antidote to Google News' monopolistic position, the company debuted Knewz.com on January 29. Its launch didn’t generate much consumer-side buzz, despite it having an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-02-13 17:20:50 UTC ]
News Corp owner was the only media baron the prime minister saw in his first three monthsBoris Johnson saw Rupert Murdoch for a “social meeting” on the day he signalled his intention to seek a general election last year, according to new transparency disclosures.Johnson saw the media billionaire... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-23 20:28:52 UTC ]
For several months, catastrophic fires have been raging in Australia. Collectively, they’ve torched some 38,000 square miles nationwide, killing at least 28 people and, according to the University of Sydney, more than a billion animals. In recent weeks, heart-rending stories of death and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-01-17 13:05:42 UTC ]
Criticism of denial by News Corp and Fox underlines Murdoch heir’s transformationJames Murdoch claims he has never watched Succession, the drama series that documents the professional and personal rebellions of a billionaire media family suspiciously similar to his own. But his comments... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-15 19:36:48 UTC ]
Director Peter Barnes says board has not talked about attack on Fox News and News Corp’s climate coverageThe lead independent director of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Peter Barnes, says the media group’s board has yet to discuss James Murdoch’s attack on the company over its stance on the climate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-15 07:29:48 UTC ]
News Corp’s paper says its journalists report the facts but critics say it publishes misleading claimsIn an editorial on Saturday, the Weekend Australian defended the News Corp paper’s climate coverage in response to criticism that it had underplayed the bushfire crisis and chosen to highlight... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-14 16:30:39 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Fox cited for ‘frustrating’ coverage of Australian bushfiresRupert Murdoch’s son has strongly criticised his family’s news outlets for downplaying the impact of the climate crisis, as bushfires continue to burn in Australia.James Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-14 13:39:30 UTC ]
Emily Townsend’s reply-all email to executive chairman calls the company’s coverage ‘irresponsible’ and ‘dangerous’A senior News Corp employee has accused the company of “misinformation” and diverting attention from climate change during the bushfire crisis in an explosive all-staff email... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-10 02:32:52 UTC ]
U.K. newspaper The Sun quietly launched a free U.S. website on Wednesday morning as News Corp tries to take advantage Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-01-08 22:45:38 UTC ]
The $19 million shelled out for the Unruly transaction represents a sharp haircut from the $90 million upfront cash price News Corp paid for the company a little over four years ago. The post The paltry price paid for Unruly rattles the consolidating ad tech market appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2020-01-07 05:00:57 UTC ]
Since Boxing Day, as bushfires raged across Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, the ABC has handled more than Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2020-01-06 15:52:50 UTC ]
Tremor International is to buy video advertising platform Unruly from News Corp, with the international publishing giant set to take a minority stake as part of the transaction. The deal will see News Corp take a 6.91% stake in Tremor, with the ad-tech company to receive the exclusive rights to... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2020-01-06 14:18:42 UTC ]
News Corp, which will get small stake in Tremor, has also entered into three-year partnership for outstream video. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2020-01-06 09:49:13 UTC ]
Australian federal police to tell inquiry it will heed ministerial direction to consider value of a free and open pressThe Australian federal police will make a second submission to federal parliament’s press freedom inquiry as part of efforts to draw a line over controversy triggered by raids... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-11-29 07:15:29 UTC ]
Early yesterday, the United Nations Environment Program published its annual assessment of greenhouse gas emissions. It described its own findings as “bleak.” Global emissions have risen by 1.5 percent every year for the past decade; top polluters including the US—which is busy pulling out of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-11-27 13:08:51 UTC ]
Murdoch was responding to a question at AGM about time given to ‘climate deniers’ by News Corp outlets in AustraliaNews Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch has said “there are no climate change deniers around I can assure you” after he was asked at the corporation’s AGM why his company gives... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-11-21 01:47:18 UTC ]