Nine Entertainment
The $220 million ‘double-edged sword’ that’s bothering Nine
Not everyone agrees that buybacks are an efficient use of a company’s capital.
- by Anne Hyland
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Jane Hansen, former A Current Affair reporter and co-author of Boned, dies
The pioneering television journalist and war correspondent’s book Boned exposed cultural problems within commercial television.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Nine publishing staff strike pay deal with management
The new offer from Nine was welcomed by the company’s publishing staff as the pay dispute is put to bed.
- by Calum Jaspan
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Media & marketing
The Age and SMH staff to strike after pay offer rejected
Staff at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review will down tools for the first time since 2017 after last-minute talks and an improved pay offer failed to deliver a resolution.
- by Calum Jaspan
Brisbane Times welcomes two new trainee journalists
The two new journalists have joined the newsroom for a 12-month program to hone their reporting skills.
Nine CEO carries Olympic torch as journalists’ strike looms
The industrial action threatens to derail Mike Sneesby’s plans to offer cross-platform coverage of Paris 2024.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
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Media & marketing
Nine vows to keep investing in youth media, appoints new Pedestrian boss
Nine has appointed a new chief executive for its youth publishing division, Pedestrian Group, two weeks after it made as much as 40 per cent of its staff redundant.
- by Calum Jaspan
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Broadcast rights
NRL to test broadcast rights waters as streaming loophole appears
The code is set to go to market for its next TV deal this year, seizing on anti-siphoning laws that allow it to sell digital rights to global players such as Amazon.
- by Chris Barrett
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Media & marketing
Pedestrian boss to depart as group slashes staff and titles
The youth publisher, owned by Nine, will be split in half and will exit its licensing deals to publish third-party brands including Vice, Refinery29, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Kotaku.
- by Calum Jaspan
Analysis
Media & marketing
‘Sobering reality’: What the future for Australia’s media giants looks like
With mass job cuts across Australia’s largest media companies, is there a way out of the advertising downturn, or is it time to face up to a new normal?
- by Calum Jaspan
‘Ready to take on the world’: Former editor Judith Whelan remembered
Judith Whelan was remembered by 500 mourners at the University of Sydney on Friday.
- by Harriet Alexander