David Yaffa - the man who turned a family business based on printing and a newspaper block service into today's magazine and events media house - has died aged 84.

Journalist and editor Paul Whittaker moves to a management role this month, replacing Angelos Frangopoulos as chief executive of Sky News operator Australian News Channel.

There's a slightly haunted look around the stands at WAN-Ifra's India Conference this year: If visitors from other world markets perceive an ongoing charmed life, local vendors don't see it like that.

Assuming its own merger into Nine Entertainment goes ahead, Fairfax Media will have to decide what happens next now the NZ Court of Appeal has ruled out the merger of its Stuff business with NZME.

Rupert Murdoch's The Weekend Australian was sporting a brand new strapline to its masthead this morning after being named 2018 News Brand of the Year in last night's rebadged awards.

One way or another, most speakers at Friday's Inform News Media Summit agreed Facebook and Google were doing a great job. At marketing.

Straits Times publisher Singapore Press Holdings has bought 14 student accommodation buildings in the UK, providing beds for almost 3500.

London-headquartered Public Relations and Communications Association has launched in southeast Asia with a dozen regional members.

America's NewsMediaAlliance has welcomed reversal of US tariffs on imported Canadian newsprint as the "right call".

Let's hear it for the Spotpress team in Seven TV's Dance Boss, unluckily pipped in the final four of the Australian dance competition.

There was a touch of the royal 'we' when Fairfax Media chief executive Greg Hywood - who is 64 next month - looked back on his seven-year tenure as head of the Australian publisher.

Big and disruptive ideas are in demand as part of a News Corp initiative to boost innovation.

With so many issues to resolve and questions to answer, Nine Entertainment chief Hugh Marks becomes the 'must hear' speaker at next month's Inform News Media Summit in Sydney.

By just over a couple of percentage points, Australia's Nine Entertainment is taking control of Fairfax Media in a 'merger' announced this morning.

Chief executive of Fairfax Media's NZ unit Stuff, Sinead Boucher has joined the speakers roster for the Inform News Media Summit in September.

Old-style typefaces and tiny headlines feature as Adelaide's The Advertiser takes online readers back to its past today, with an impression of how it might have looked 16 decades ago.

Not unlike the 'prodigal son', Raju Narisetti will be back in India to speak at INMA's South Asia Conference in August.

Indian media group Mathrubhumi is investing in the future of news with the establishment of a new media school in Kochi.

Trust in social media has fallen again in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and concerns about data privacy, according to Australian research.

$48 million in cash pledged as part of the deal to get media law reform through the Australian parliament is finally up for grabs.

Only three Australian news brands - two of them national broadcasters - rated positive scores in Roy Morgan's Media Net Trust survey.

With two of its former core businesses largely expunged, chairman of Here, There & Everywhere Peter Cosgrove has decided it's time to go.

If just the thought of working in newspapers is enough to make you want to dance, watch out for a new Australian reality TV programme.

The run-up to September's Inform NewsMedia Summit event has begun with the announcement of Zenith US innovation head Tom Goodwin as keynoter.

An 'exciting new chapter' is starting in Hong Kong, with new offices and a new outgoing, global approach to publication for the South China Morning Post. Peter Coleman reports