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 ]
News Corp has reached a deal to let Facebook Inc. feature headlines from The Wall Street Journal and other Dow Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-10-21 14:49:53 UTC ]
United campaign by media companies highlights government moves to penalise whistleblowing and criminalise journalism • Lenore Taylor: Concrete action rather than nice words are needed on press freedomThe front page of every newspaper in Australia was blacked out on Monday as part of a campaign... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-10-20 22:51:36 UTC ]
As an abashed former News Corp employee (thankfully at HarperCollins, one of the Murdoch portfolio’s least-offensive holdings), HBO’s "Succession" is my straight shot of Sunday-night dopamine. The show’s great even if you aren’t attuned to the devastating, thinly veiled media and publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-10-11 11:22:17 UTC ]
As an abashed former News Corp employee (thankfully at HarperCollins, one of the Murdoch portfolio’s least-offensive holdings), HBO’s "Succession" is my straight shot of Sunday-night dopamine. The show’s great even if you aren’t attuned to the devastating, thinly veiled media and publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-10-11 11:22:17 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corp and co-chairman of Fox Corp., who built his fortune in the newspaper Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-10-01 07:00:50 UTC ]
In a response to most news publishers’ checklist of needs from a digital conduit to their content, News Corp is Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-12 18:30:12 UTC ]
Australia has become a dangerously complacent country, dancing to the reactionary tune of the Murdoch pressAustralia has become the complacent country. Complacent about its future economic competitiveness. Complacent about climate change. Complacent about how to navigate our future in the region... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-09-06 20:00:48 UTC ]
Documents obtained by ABC show departmental secretary asked for his thanks to be passed on to AFP team involved The head of the Department of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, congratulated the Australian federal police for conducting raids on journalists, new documents reveal.Correspondence obtained... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-29 04:27:34 UTC ]
Application for injunction preventing the publisher from repeating meanings in defamatory material dismissedActor Geoffrey Rush, who was awarded $2.9m in his defamation case against Nationwide News, has lost his bid to prevent the newspaper publisher from repeating the substance of its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-28 07:48:07 UTC ]
On March 1, at the headquarters of a solar-panel company in Seattle, Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, jumped into the Democratic presidential primary as a climate-focused candidate. The following week, amid a flurry of interviews, Inslee went on Rachel Maddow’s show, on MSNBC, to make the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-08-23 12:09:26 UTC ]
News Corp said it would not take a cut of ad revenue generated by articles from Knewz.com. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2019-08-23 08:34:39 UTC ]
When the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism pledged money to News Corp and Nine Entertainment last month, some cynics wondered Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-08-21 14:55:30 UTC ]
The fund behind the biggest grant ever given to the Sydney Opera House says it won’t play favourites in Australian mediaWhen the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism pledged money to News Corp and Nine Entertainment last month, some cynics wondered why the $100m philanthropic outfit was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-21 04:31:05 UTC ]
Former social affairs reporter Rick Morton attacked in print and online. Plus: Rowan Dean ignores police over Sydney stabbing attacksIt doesn’t take long for a top reporter at the Australian, with a regular presence on page one, to become the target of a front-page story in the combative... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-16 01:49:59 UTC ]
Commissioner Andrew Colvin tells MPs the investigation is ‘ongoing’The Australian federal police commissioner has not ruled out prosecuting the News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst, telling parliament’s intelligence and security committee the investigation into leaked material remains... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-14 00:57:26 UTC ]
Peter Dutton says federal police should consider ‘public interest implications’ before investigating leaks that involve journalistsHome affairs minister Peter Dutton has given new directions to the Australian federal police on investigations into journalists and media organisations.The decision... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-09 07:01:12 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch’s Australian mastheads and Foxtel suffer drop in revenue although global profits increase after huge loss in 2018Revenue at the Australian mastheads run by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp fell by 6% last year, and the company’s pay TV operation, Foxtel, has also been hit by falling... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-09 01:33:05 UTC ]
Campaigner calls out ‘hate and conspiracy campaigns’ after Australian’s attackThe teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has hit back at the Australian News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt for writing a deeply offensive column that mocked her autism diagnosis.The Swedish schoolgirl posted a tweet... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-01 20:43:04 UTC ]