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Tag Archives: News Ltd

Hartigan and the future of newspapers

Newspapers have been declining in prominence and relevance for decades, well before the Internet and bloggers came along.
Many newspaper titles have disappeared altogether, or have been merged, in response to the growth of radio and television. The emergence of the Internet simply reduces the market for newspapers even further. Newspapers will not disappear altogether, the [...]

Hanson photos: Will News Ltd have to do their own explaining?

Yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph was a corker – nude photos of Pauline Hanson – can it get any better than that? Editor, and tabloid king, Neil Breen would have been spinning cartwheels at the income-generating potential of this ’scoop’.
But is it true? Hanson was on Alan Jones’s program, her preferred media outlet, before 7am this morning [...]

Murdoch kicks off Boyer lecture series

About 500 people gave up their Sunday afternoon to hear Rupert Murdoch deliver the first in his series of this year’s Boyer Lectures to be broadcast on Radio National. It helped that we were watered and fed on the Opera House forecourt afterwards.
There was a great assortment of executives from News Limited and the ABC, [...]