TPG Capital tells Senate inquiry it would expand the business but concedes it has no experience running newspapersOne of the bidders for Fairfax Media, TPG Capital, has told a Senate inquiry that if the $2.7bn bid were successful the consortium would grow the media business and sell it off again in four or five years.The publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age is considering the bid from TPG Capital as well as a rival $2.87bn bid from Hellman & Friedman, lodged on Thursday. Related: Fairfax chief Greg Hywood refuses to discuss pay deal at Senate hearing Related: Why Fairfax redundancy sums don't yet add up | The Weekly Beast Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Up to 85 staff take a voluntary redundancy after Nine newspapers announced it was cutting 200 jobsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastUp to 85 journalists, most of them senior, have taken a voluntary... Continue reading at The Guardian
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OpenAI will pay German publisher Axel Springer to use its news articles to train its AI models and show real-time information from Axel Springer's brands, which include Business Insider and Politico in the US and Bild and Welt in Europe, in ChatGPT’s responses. None of the companies disclosed... Continue reading at Engadget
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News Corp and Fairfax Media challenge ruling they are liable for defamatory comments on their Facebook postsThe high court has cast doubt on media companies’ claims that they are not responsible for defamatory comments on their social media posts. Fairfax Media and News Corp have taken the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-05-18 07:19:27 UTC ]
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Patrick Allaway’s announcement comes a day after the company’s newspapers reported on an investigation into deputy chairman Nick FalloonThe Nine Entertainment board is facing another shake-up after the sudden resignation of a director just three months after the chief executive, Hugh Marks,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-03-02 06:44:21 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_164365" align="alignright" width="150"] Alyssa Vingan Klein[/caption] Bustle Digital Group named Fashionista’s editor-in-chief Alyssa Vingan Klein as the new editorial director of Nylon. This hire follows last week’s announcement by Nylon editor-in-chief Gabrielle Korn... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-08-08 19:30:31 UTC ]
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Completing a two-year-long divestment process, Rogers Media, once far and away Canada's largest magazine publisher, will soon pull out of the print media business entirely. The company has reached an agreement to sell all five of its remaining magazines—including 114-year-old news... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scott Galloway's book "The Four" is about tech giants Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon and how they pose a threat to just about every other business on the planet. But he's mulling a sequel, because he now thinks the first three need to fear the fourth."Amazon is beating up on the other three... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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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Just weeks ago, Fairfax Media said it would have to sharply reduce staffing at many of its newspapers. But Domain, Fairfax’s lucrative online real estate portal, has had its revenue continue to grow. Continue reading at The New York Times
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TPG Capital tells Senate inquiry it would expand the business but concedes it has no experience running newspapersOne of the bidders for Fairfax Media, TPG Capital, has told a Senate inquiry that if the $2.7bn bid were successful the consortium would grow the media business and sell it off again... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost anyone can use the worldwide web to be a media outlet, so how will we differentiate between truth, myth and lies? Australia’s two largest legacy media organisations recently announced big cuts to their journalistic staff. Many editorial positions, perhaps up to 120, will disappear at... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax and Warren Mundine have reached an out-of-court settlement over ‘inflammatory allegations’ Mundine says were made against himWarren Mundine says Fairfax Media will apologise to him over an article that claimed a company he had an interest in lobbied for an Indigenous body to drop... Continue reading at The Guardian
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With Savitt at the helm of the media business, Yahoo has reimagined its lifestyles content and launched new digital magazines: Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Mans photo published in front-page stories on Abdul Numan Haider, shot dead by police after allegedly stabbing two officers Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Columnist of 20 years given ultimatum by Sydney Morning Herald: its us or the Saturday PaperRichard Ackland says he has ended 20 years as a columnist for Fairfax Media after the Sydney Morning Herald asked him to choose between writing for a rival publication, the Saturday Paper, and the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The magazine was once the most hotly anticipated Sunday read. Now it's been eclipsed by the showy T style publicationTwo magazines, both published by the New York Times, arrived in my house over the weekend, one thin, the other thick.The thin one, The New York Times Magazine, is largely about... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Storied magazine publisher Time Inc. surprised its editors on Thursday by assigning them to report to division presidents instead of an editorial executive, leading some to wonder whether business interests would now trump those of edit.Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp said the restructuring will make the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's choice of former metals-industry executive Daniel Dienst to lead the company meant going outside the media business for a manager with operational experience -- one who can hopefully reshape the unprofitable company.Mr. Dienst, the former CEO of scrap-metal... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Fairfax Media will stop printing BRW magazine but offer its content for free online, as the brand transitions into a digital property. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
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Fairfax Media will shed at least 45 jobs across its publishing units amid continued challenging advertising markets. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
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