January 30, 2009 – 5:23 pm
I wrote in the Crikey e-mail today about some forthcoming cuts and redundancies at News Limited.
Since then the boss (Jonathan Green) has reported on his blog that the magic number they are cutting may be 800.
I don’t know where he got that number from. My contacts haven’t put a figure on it. But the boss [...]
January 23, 2009 – 9:15 am
Yesterday came news that a leading US media analyst has cut his 2009 earnings forecast for the global News Corporation and believes the media company could see a 50 per cent fall in profits this financial year.
Now I hear that on Friday of next week there will be a top level meeting of the Australian [...]
December 17, 2008 – 10:34 am
As you would expect, the knives are out for Bruce Guthrie, former editor of the Herald-Sun, following his taking an unfair dismissal action against his former employer.
Matthew Ricketson has the story buried in today’s Age business section. Guthrie has claimed in his legal action that the man with whom he is meant to have clashed, [...]
December 4, 2008 – 8:31 pm
What a rotten time to be an editor of a newspaper. This afternoon Sydney Morning Herald editor Alan Oakley either stepped down or was sacked, depending on who you listen to.
More on the implications of that later, but step back a moment and think about all the editors whose heads have rolled in the last [...]
December 4, 2008 – 11:04 am
Some weird moral conundrums in the MP-photos affair, in which Labor backbencher James Bidgood flogged the photos he took of a man threatening to set himself alight on the lawns of Parliament House.
Michelle Grattan opined on the Radio National’s Breakfast show this morning that common human decency should have told Bidgood that what he did [...]
