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.
Former chairman of IPMG Michael Hannan is back in the chair following its merger with PMP to create Australian printing giant Ovato.
The move follows the resignations of Ovato chairman Matthew Bickford-Smith, and that of non-executive director Terry Sinclair.
New independent directors are to be announced, as the board "rebalances" to have a majority of majority of independent directors.
Hannan (pictured) says his appointment is "the final phase" of the integration between IPMG and the former PMP following the 2017 merger.
"As we pass this milestone, it is important that we now revisit the experience and skill set of the Board to best assist management in improving shareholder returns in this next phase of the company," he says.
He thanksed Bickford-Smith for his work as a director for ten years, eight of them as chairman, and for his input after the merger.
Ovato is planning a long-overdue official opening of its upgraded super-site in Warwick Farm in Sydney's west.
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