After just a day's Senate hearings, both the Coalition government and Labor have decided there is no need for an Australian royal commission into media diversity.
Rupert Murdoch doesn't tell Australian editors what to write, but many get opportunities to learn what he thinks, senators learned today.
WAN-Ifra's global president has written to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi urging an end to legal actions he says "threaten to undermine press freedom".
Having moved back the US to be closer to her family, Mary-Katharine Phillips has joined the News Leaders Association.
Australian media owners' lobby group ThinkNewsBrands has announced the appointment of Vanessa Lyons as general manager.
Australia's mandatory bargaining code has passed through both parliamentary houses and is expected to get its final nod today.
Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media has signed a preliminary agreement with Facebook, making it the first media company to do so since the social media giant restarted news content on its site yesterday.
A further loss of trust in Australia's 'traditional' media from 56 to 53 per cent left the country with no trusted information source, according to this year's Edelman Trust Barometer.
In the ongoing battle between traditional media and Big Tech, one skirmish was apparently resolved last night, while another took a new turn.
Having driven the country's mandatory code legislation in the first place, News Corp has held out for a global deal covering Australia as well as the UK and US.
Comparisons are odious but inevitable with publication of Ive Group's and Ovato's half-year results.
DRUPA organisers say a conference programme is planned before the digital preview platform makes way for virtual.drupa.
Press and equipment maker Heidelberg is selling its futuristic Print Media Academy, while its sale of finishing systems subsidiary Gallus appears to have fallen through.
That it's been "the best-kept secret without actually being a secret" is a measure of how well DIC Australia's closure of news ink production in the country has been managed.
Two traditional print brands are finding growth with the trend towards electric-powered transport.
At $4.19 for the kindle edition, it's questionable how much Mark Hollands will make from his crime thriller. But it could win him a series deal.
The long-awaited novel from the chief executive of The Newspaper Works, Amplify is set in Sydney and features the seedy side of the rock music world.
It introduces anti-hero Billy Lime - an entertainment entrepreneur who risks losing everything when the lead singer of a band he's promoting is murdered - and presents the book as "a Billy Lime thriller".
Hollands says he wanted to create a hard-edged, Australian anti-hero that lovers of crime thrillers could relate to: "Amplify is the first in a series of Billy Lime adventures.
"It is set in the present day and anchored in the music industry rather than a city or region," he says.
Hollands, who worked in journalism before taking the Newspaper Works role, is fascinated by the rock business and the social commentary it delivers on the changes being experienced in the digital content revolution: "It's great to allow the real world to intersect with a plot that twists and turns with each chapter."
2UE Breakfast presenter and former Fairfax editor Garry Linnell is euphoric: "Does it get any better than this," he asks in a review. "Bikies, drugs, rock 'n' roll and a parade of truly authentic modern Australian characters makes this a real page-turner. And Billy Lime is sublime."
He says Hollands has put together "a complicated man and a fascinating narrative" that deserves a long-running series: "If Hollywood hasn't come looking already to sign Billy Lime up, it soon will.
Amplify: A Billy Lime Thriller is available for Kindle and e-Readers from Amazon.
$4.19 for the Kindle edition, 408 pages
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