Director of Australia's new Judith Nielson Institute Mark Ryan has called on journalists to quit "mean spirited" sniping at colleagues on rival publications.

With industry consolidation, news industry conferences have become scarcer in Australia, and time is money, especially when it's the boss who's paying for your day away from the office.

It was by any measure, a very good night for News Corp Australia and its brands.

Mind over matter is securing a bright future for Singapore Press Holdings, despite the decline of print.

Anthony Catalano has drawn on his extensive knowledge of real estate marketing and taken out a rival with the acquisition of a Bendigo freesheet.

India's printed newspaper success story isn't easily translated into advertising sales, delegates at the WAN-Ifra India 2019 conference heard.

Complex factors are at play as falling print circulations and the 'gig economy' turn newspaper delivery upside down in one of Australia's largest markets.

Communications, cyber safety and arts minister Paul Fletcher has been added to a full programme for the upcoming Inform News Media Summit in Sydney.

A celebratory and dinner this Wednesday attended by Victorian governor Linda Dessau will mark the 150^th anniversary of Australian 'bush bible' the Weekly Times.

Press freedom might be important to Australia's prime minister in China, but it's an inconvenience back home.

NewsMediaWorks has named finalists in its 2019 News Media Awards, winners of which will be announced at a dinner in September.

A first round of grants from the new Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas is a "signal to the marketplace" of what it hopes to undertake, director Mark Ryan says.

News Corp Australia tabloids in NT and regional Queensland will shrink almost a seventh of their size while the publisher tells readers they will be getting more.

New Zealand print and digital publishing business Stuff is for sale, but not at any price.

An agency view of Australia's newsmedia industry comes in the second round of speaker announcements for Inform.

Malaysia's Star Media has announced the appointment of advertising industry veteran Andreas Vogiatzakis as its group chief executive.

Awarded Phlippines publisher Maria Ressa is among speakers during a 'festival of ideas' being held in Sydney at the end iof August.

It's back to the barricades as Antony Catalano and Alex Waislitz get ready to take over the more than 160 former Fairfax regional mastheads acquired from Nine Entertainment.

Google has hit back at a News Media Alliance report which estimates the search giant's annual take from news publishers' work at $4.7 billion as inaccurate "back-of-the envelope calculations".

Publisher Nation Multimedia Group has confirmed that it will stop printing daily The Nation newspaper at the end of this month, exactly 48 years after it was first published.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is taking the fight to new Australian publisher Antony Catalano with a rival agricultural newspaper and online competitors for his Canberra Times and two other titles.

New Zealand's news media industry celebrated a broad range of top work at the Voyager Media Awards, with the Sunday Star-Times declared newspaper of the year and relative newcomer The Spinoff scoring for top website.

Daily newspapers continue to change hands apace in the US, with two more transactions announced within two hours yesterday.

How many business models does a news publisher need so a news publisher can publish news? The modern riddle brought at least two answers at the second day of Publish Asia in Singapore.

South China Morning Post chief executive Gary Liu was kept busy at WAN-Ifra's Asian Media Awards last night, with a welcome speech and presentations to staffers who collected six of the awards.