News
Arthur Sinodinos, former minister and Australia’s ambassador-designate to Washington, has warned that the media is becoming a polarised “battleground”, which is dangerous for democracy and science.
Business
News Corp’s latest annual report shows The Advertiser‘s print circulation has fallen below 100,000 daily newspaper sales for the first time in years – and fewer digital readers are paying for the news service online.
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News Corp insists it “remains firmly committed to the people and issues of South Australia”, despite axing the sole remaining reporter in the local bureau of its national broadsheet, The Australian.
News Corp says it intends to mount a legal challenge over an Australian Federal Police raid on a journalist’s home, as the ABC launches legal action over the police raid on its Sydney headquarters.
The local government sector is pushing to change an “outdated” state law that sees Adelaide ratepayers pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation millions of dollars in compulsory advertising, in a new blow to the media company’s ailing suburban newspaper stable.
Peter Dutton has stressed there’s nothing new about the idea that a journalist can go to jail for publishing top secret government documents, saying the suggestion there should be no penalty goes against “tradition”.
