Australian Billionaire Threatens to Dump Fairfax Media Stake

HONG KONG — The Australian mining billionaire Georgina Rinehart has threatened to sell her recently acquired 19 percent stake in Fairfax Media, sending shares in the Australian publisher tumbling on Tuesday. The announcement is the latest ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Australian Billionaire Threatens to Dump Fairfax Media Stake

HONG KONG — The Australian mining billionaire Georgina Rinehart has threatened to sell her recently acquired 19 percent stake in Fairfax Media, sending shares in the Australian publisher tumbling on Tuesday. The announcement is the latest ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Media bidder TPG says it would resell media company within five years

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[ The Guardian | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women still vastly underrepresented in Australian media, report says

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Byron Allen threatens to sue more advertisers in push to increase Black media spend

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Australian sports media: ‘There’s this pigeonholing of Indigenous voices’ | Marnie Vinall

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High court rules Australian media companies can be liable for defamatory comments posted on Facebook pages

Decision rejecting appeal in Voller defamation case means companies will be likely to ban comments on more social media postsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingSome of Australia’s biggest media companies have lost a bid in the high court to escape liability for defamatory... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Crunchyroll Takes Majority Stake in Viz Media Europe

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Australian media unite to demand government change laws after AFP raids

ABC, News Corp and Nine call for legislation to protect journalists and whistleblowers, saying a free press must be ‘entrenched in law’Media executives have united to call on the government to amend a range of laws to protect journalists and whistleblowers after a series of widely condemned... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Enthuse buys 51% stake in AA Media Ltd

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'Major distraction': Australian primary school dumps iPads, returns to paper textbooks

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Serena Williams cartoon not racist, Australian media watchdog rules

Herald Sun newspaper’s depiction of player ‘spitting the dummy’ at US Open had been widely condemnedA Herald Sun cartoon that depicted Serena Williams jumping in the air and “spitting the dummy” after losing a match to Naomi Osaka was not racist, the Press Council has found.The News Corp cartoon... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Another tech billionaire turns media mogul

Where Jeff Bezos goes, other tech billionaires follow. The latest titan to invest in print media is Salesforce founder Marc Benioff who, along with wife Lynne, is buying Time magazine. The pair are using $190 million from their personal fortune to bu... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Australian media companies join forces to appeal Rebel Wilson damages payout

News Corp Australia, Fairfax Media, Macquarie Media, the ABC and the Seven and Nine networks line up with publisher BauerMajor Australian media companies have lined up with the magazine publisher Bauer in its appeal against the record amount of damages awarded to actor Rebel Wilson last year.The... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kew buys stake in Awesome Media

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Fairfax Media planning another shake-up, secret document reveals

Group plays down significance of information stumbled upon by staff union, but agrees to consult further with MEAAFairfax Media is planning another restructure of the Age and Sydney Morning Herald newsrooms, according to a secret document discovered by the staff union.However, the publisher has... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Media announces half-year profit and plan to keep printing newspapers

Greg Hywood says company will keep printing Sydney Morning Herald and the Age ‘for some years yet’ and may spin off Domain real estate business Fairfax Media will continue to print its daily newspapers for several years, its chief executive, Greg Hywood, confirmed at the company’s results... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Media posts $27.4m profit despite lower print advertising revenue

Property website Domain increases digital revenue by 37% and continues to prop up Fairfax’s overall profit as editorial restructure is announcedFairfax Media, publishers of the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, have returned a net profit of $27.4m for the first half of the financial year... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Fairfax Media apologises to children's charity over wrong report on donations

Sydney Morning Herald report taken down from website as editor-in-chief concedes they understated money paid out by Humpty Dumpty FoundationFairfax Media has apologised to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, a children’s charity, for an article that underestimated the charity’s return on... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Unionized Newsrooms Threaten the Very Thing That Helped Digital Media Grow

With unions cropping up in digital newsrooms across the media landscape, publishers have to be wondering if they should be worried. Could their staff be next?     For those who have grown their businesses on the back of a ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

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