A crop of News Corp’s most influential global powerbrokers have been in Sydney this week for a round of annual budget meetings, as the company's Australian staff brace for job cuts.
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Some directors of the country's largest domestic media company are aggrieved at the way a complaint against a former executive was handled.
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The government may have hoped to win the front pages with coverage of a budget that delivers cost-of-living relief and a new interventionist agenda. It got something else.
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TikTok has opted against replacing its most senior Australian executive despite mounting political and regulatory pressure on both sides of the Pacific.
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The fiercely contested regulatory battle over whether streaming services should be forced to produce a set amount of Australian content is set to conclude in a matter of months.
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TikTok has filed an Australian trademark application for the name "TikTok Shop", the global social media giant's fledgling e-commerce business.
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Digital outlets including Broadsheet are urging the federal government to consider alternatives to "designating" Meta under the media bargaining code, warning a news ban could devastate smaller publishers.
The move to prohibit staff from signing petitions and open letters comes as management and staff prepare to negotiate a fresh pay deal.
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The global streaming audio giant has provided a rare glimpse into the performance of its original Australian podcasts, despite a retreat from the medium.
The key Seven West Media executive and long-time lieutenant to Kerry Stokes is leaving the company after more than two decades, and just months after CEO James Warburton announced his departure.
Global streaming giant Netflix is calling on Australia to take a leaf out of the UK's book by limiting free-to-air networks to a single, shared app tile on viewers' screens.
The chief executive of Australia's largest innovation and scaleup hub has expressed confidence in its long term viability despite deepening losses.
The proposed deal would deliver an 8% pay bump for staff in the first year, followed by 6% increases in the second and third years.
The tech behemoth's endorsement of journalism also comes as the media industry eyes licensing deals for the use of news content in artificial intelligence platforms.
