Opinion
News Corp’s claims about Facebook and Google don’t stack up – but that hasn’t stopped the Federal Government handing the Murdochs yet another political win, this time in their battle against the tech giants, writes Bernard Keane.
Media and marketing
In this week’s column, changes at the top at The Advertiser, inside Nick Xenophon’s media reform deal, and a key appointment in Adelaide’s advertising industry.
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The Murdoch family is a step closer to adding a free-to-air television network to its Australian media empire after the competition watchdog cleared a joint bid for the Ten Network by billionaires Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has leveraged One Nation’s demand for reprisals against public broadcasters ABC and SBS in a desperate bid to re-engineer the Australian commercial media industry.
Almost three quarters of South Australians want taxpayer funding to the ABC increased or maintained at its current level, according to a new ReachTel poll, InDaily can reveal.
InDaily’s media column returns with an assessment of how federal media reforms might increase News Corp’s tight grip on Adelaide media, the surprise in the latest newspaper readership figures, a big win for a local advertising agency, and more.
