Peter Timmins is a consultant who works on Freedom of Information and privacy protection issues. He was also Deputy Chair of the Independent Audit of Free Speech in Australia that kicked off the Right to Know campaign, spearheaded by News Limited’s CEO, John Hartigan. For these reasons, as well as the cogency of his arguments, [...]

I’ve been frying other fish for the last two working days, so can only now sit down to write about the Pauline Hanson photos. In the meantime, it has emerged that the photographs might not even be of her. It has also been suggested that she leaked them. None of that matters, really, when it [...]

A little more on News Limited and the angst over features. One of the reasons information is scarce is because the details are far from worked out. Those staff who heard the announcement of change in Melbourne last Friday remember hearing the words “two weeks” and some took away from this that the changes would [...]

More in the Crikey email about the News Limited features restructure today, with editorial director Campbell Reid having granted me a not very informative interview, that nevertheless contains some significant denials. But in the meantime, Fairfax is about to go through an upheavel, with CEO Brian McCarthy expected to make an announcement today or tomorrow [...]

Further to my previous post, here is a News Limited rumour that IS true. Bob Gordon, editor in chief of the Gold Coast Bulletin, will step down in July.

I’ve spent far too long on the phone so far this week trying to chase down rumours about what is going on at News Limited, and in particular in the features area. The unsurprising result – that most of the rumours are born of fear rather than fact, but that something is going on – [...]

I am told Rupert walked through the Daily Telegraph newsroom at Holt Street about an hour ago, causing the nervous to speculate that he was personally “revising numbers”.

News Corp has released its sad results. You can listen to What Rupert Said here. And for the first time we have a bit of an idea as to what the Australian group is planning. In answer to an analyst’s question, Rupert says that he is in Australia at the moment, and “the local management [...]

More on the argy bargy between Crikey and News Limited on the issue of whether there are or are not cuts and redundancies in the wind. Yesterday several media outlets reported that the second quarter results, due to be released tomorrow, are likely to disclose a fall in earnings of about 30 per cent for [...]

In case you missed it, here is what the Boss said about what News Limited boss John Hartigan said about us. Turrum turrum. For the record, while the 800 figure does not come from me (the boss dug that up), my sources are good and insistent that more redundancies at News Limited are on the [...]