All posts by Denis Muller
how Australia’s ‘media monsters’ used journalism to cement their empires
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Carl Sagan said that in order to understand the present, it’s necessary to know the past. Nowhere does this apply with greater force than to the Australian media and its place in the nation’s power structure. Media Monsters,…
News Corp’s job cuts cast a shadow over the future of its newspapers
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. News Corporation is cutting its staff by 5% globally, including in Australia, after its news media division recorded a second-quarter earnings decline of 47%. The decision inevitably reopens questions about the future of the company’s newspapers, particularly once…
Attacks on Dan Andrews are part of News Corporation’s long abuse of power
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Sane people trying to fathom the Herald Sun’s bizarre coverage of Victorian Premier Dan Andrews over the past few days might be helped by some insights from the founding of News Limited, the company on which Rupert Murdoch’s…