Showing posts with label Rupert Murdoch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rupert Murdoch. Show all posts
Monday 8 April 2019
"USING 150 INTERVIEWS ON THREE CONTINENTS, THE [NEW YORK] TIMES DESCRIBES THE MURDOCH FAMILY’S ROLE IN DESTABILIZING DEMOCRACY IN NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA"
With Murdoch’s
News Corp mastheads dominating the local newspaper landscape in the NSW Northern Rivers region this should interest readers…….
Rupert Murdoch, the
founder of a global media empire that includes Fox News, has said he “never
asked a prime minister for anything.”
But that empire has
given him influence over world affairs in a way few private citizens ever have,
granting the Murdoch family enormous sway over not just the United States, but
English-speaking countries around the world.
A
six-month investigation by The New York Times covering three
continents and including more than 150 interviews has described how Mr. Murdoch
and his feuding sons turned their media outlets into right-wing political
influence machines that have destabilized democracy in North America, Europe and
Australia.
Here are some key
takeaways from The Times’s investigation into the Murdoch family and its role
in the illiberal, right-wing political wave sweeping the globe.
THE MURDOCH FAMILY SITS
AT THE CENTER OF GLOBAL UPHEAVAL.
Fox News has long
exerted a gravitational pull on the Republican Party in the United States,
where it most recently amplified the nativist revolt that has fueled the rise
of the far right and the election of President Trump.
Mr. Murdoch’s newspaper
The Sun spent years demonizing the European Union to its readers in Britain,
where it helped lead the Brexit campaign that persuaded a slim majority of
voters in a 2016 referendum to endorse pulling out of the bloc. Political havoc
has reigned in Britain ever since.
And in Australia, where
his hold over the media is most extensive, Mr. Murdoch’s outlets pushed for the
repeal of the country’s carbon tax and helped topple a series of prime
ministers whose agenda he disliked, including Malcolm Turnbull last year.
At the center of this
upheaval sits the Murdoch family, a clan whose dysfunction has both shaped and
mirrored the global tumult of recent years.
The Times explored those
family dynamics and their impact on the Murdoch empire, which is on the cusp of
succession as its 88-year-old patriarch prepares to hand power to the son whose
politics most resemble his own: Lachlan Murdoch.
A key step in that
succession has paradoxically been the partial dismemberment of the empire,
which significantly shrunk last month when Mr. Murdoch sold one of his
companies, the film studio 21st Century Fox, to the Walt Disney Company for
$71.3 billion.
The deal turned Mr.
Murdoch’s children into billionaires and left Lachlan in control of a powerful
political weapon: a streamlined company, the Fox Corporation, whose most potent
asset is Fox News…..
The Murdoch empire has
also boldly flexed its muscles in Australia, which was for many years Lachlan’s
domain.
In Australia, Lachlan
expressed disdain for efforts to fight climate change and once rebuked the
staff at one of his family’s newspapers, The Australian, for an editorial in
support of same-sex marriage (He says through a representative that he is in
favor of same-sex marriage). He also became close to the politician Tony
Abbott, whose 2013 election as prime minister was given an assist by Murdoch
newspapers.
The Murdoch family
changed Australian politics in 2016 when it took control of Sky News Australia
and imported the Fox News model. They quickly introduced a slate of right-wing
opinion shows that often focused on race, immigration and climate change. The
programming became known as Sky After Dark.
Last year, Mr. Turnbull
and his staff accused Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch of using their media outlets
to help foment the intraparty coup that thrust him from office in August. Mr.
Turnbull, a moderate and longtime nemesis of his friend Mr. Abbott, was replaced
by the right-wing nationalist Scott Morrison.
The Murdochs have denied
any role in Mr. Turnbull’s downfall.....
The night after his
arrival, Lachlan invited a small group of Sky employees and managers to his $16
million mansion in Sydney for drinks. With its new prime-time lineup of
hard-right opinion hosts, Sky had become a force in Australian politics. Its
audience was still small by American standards, but it was the network of
choice in the capital, Canberra, and it was finalizing a deal to expand its reach
into the Australian Outback — demographically speaking, the equivalent of Trump
country.
It was a mirror of Fox
News, with its fixation on race, identity and climate-change denial. Night
after night, Sky’s hosts and their guests stirred anger over the perceived
liberal bias of the media, “suicidal self-hatred” of Western civilization and
the Australian equivalent of the Central American “caravans” that were dividing
the United States: asylum seekers coming to the country by boat from Indonesia
and Malaysia, many of them Muslim. Days before Lachlan’s arrival, a national
neo-Nazi leader, Blair Cottrell — who had recently been fined for “inciting
contempt for Muslims” — appeared on one of the network’s shows. Cottrell had
been interviewed on Australian TV before, but his deferential treatment by Sky
caused a national outcry. Under gentle questioning, he called on his countrymen
to “reclaim our traditional identity as Australians” and advocated limiting
immigration to those “who are not too culturally dissimilar from us,” such as
white South African farmers. (Sky apologized and suspended
the program.)
Inside Lachlan’s living
room, the talk turned to national politics. “Do you think Malcolm is going to
survive?” Lachlan asked his staff. Malcolm was Malcolm Turnbull, the relatively
moderate Australian prime minister who took office a few years earlier. Inside
the government, a small right-wing uprising had been brewing over his plans to
bring Australia into compliance with the Paris climate accord. It is well
established among those who have worked for the Murdochs that the family
rarely, if ever, issues specific directives. They convey their desires
indirectly, maybe with a tweet — as Murdoch did in the spring of 2016 when he
decided to back Trump — or a question, the subtleties of which are rarely lost
on their like-minded news executives.
In the days that
followed, Sky Australia’s hosts and the Murdoch papers — the newspaper editors
had their own drinks session at Lachlan’s mansion — set about trying to throw
Turnbull out of office. Alan Jones, a Sky host
and conservative radio star, called for a party “rebellion” against him on his
program. Days later, the Murdochs’ major paper in Sydney, The Daily Telegraph,
broke the news that a
leadership challenge was in the works. Cheering on the
challenge, Andrew
Bolt, the Murdoch columnist who was once convicted of violating the
country’s Racial Discrimination Act, told his Sky viewers that Turnbull’s
“credibility is shot, his authority is gone.” Peta Credlin, the
commentator who was Tony Abbott’s former chief of staff, chewed out a member of
Parliament for the chaos inside Turnbull’s administration. The Australian, the
Murdochs’ national newspaper, was soon declaring Turnbull a “dead man walking.”......
It was always difficult
to separate the personal from the financial and the ideological with the
Murdochs. All appeared to be in evidence in their decision to turn against
Turnbull. To begin with, he took office a few years earlier by ousting
Lachlan’s friend Tony Abbott, and it was Abbott who helped lead the Turnbull
uprising. Turnbull’s policies were also not perfectly aligned with the
Murdochs’ interests. For instance, he had expedited the construction of the
country’s national
broadband network, which directly threatened the family’s highly profitable
cable business by giving Netflix a government-subsidized pipeline into
Australian homes.
The small number of
Australian media outlets that the Murdochs did not own portrayed
Turnbull’s ouster as a Murdoch-led “coup.” Kevin Rudd, a former prime
minister whom the family had helped push out of office years earlier, described
Murdoch in an op-ed in The Sydney Morning Herald as “the
greatest cancer on the Australian democracy.”
Turnbull was replaced by
the right-wing nationalist Scott Morrison, who quickly aligned himself with
Trump. The two met in person for the first time in late 2018 at the G-20 summit
meeting in Buenos Aires. “I think it’s going to be a great relationship,” Trump
said afterward. With a national election scheduled for May 2019, Morrison
quickly staked his party’s prospects on the polarizing issue of immigration,
promising a new hard-line approach. It dovetailed with Sky’s regular prime-time
programming. Andrew Bolt, who previously warned of a “foreign invasion,”
said in
one segment, “We also risk importing ethnic and religious strife, even
terrorism,” as the screen flashed an image of Australia’s potential future:
rows of Muslims on a city street, bowing toward Mecca. When the opposing Labor
Party managed to muscle through legislation that would allow doctors to
transfer severely sick migrants in detention centers on the Australian islands
of Nauru and Manus into hospitals on the mainland, Sky Australia’s prime-time
hosts went on the offensive.
Read the full
article here.
Tuesday 29 January 2019
Why is the Australian Government subsidising a News Corp television program?
On 21
December 2018 the Australian
Communications and Media Authority announced:
The ACMA has awarded
up to $3.6 million in grants to regional and small publishers under
the first round of the Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund.
Round one of the
Innovation Fund will support 29 projects by 25 successful applicants
nationwide, with a mix of regional and metropolitan proposals funded.
Grants
will support innovation and digitalisation across a wide range of activities,
including market research, trials of new business models, podcasts, and video
capability.
A list of successful
applicants and their projects is here.
However,
there is another grant stream which sees News Corp’s Sky News Channel - part of
multinational media empire - receive
money to cover 15 per cent of a particular Sunday program’s production costs.
BuzzFeed, 25 January 2019:
The show is partly
funded through a Commonwealth government grant awarded to Mundine's business
Nyungga Black Group, through a closed non-competitive selection process,
according to the grant information published online.
The grant, running from
June 18, 2018 to Aug. 1 this year is for a total of $220,000. The Department of
Prime Minister & Cabinet confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the grant was for
Mundine's Sky News show.
News Corp’s 2018
annual report states of the corporation’s news channel:
Australian News Channel
ANC operates 10 channels
featuring the latest in news, politics, sports, entertainment, public affairs,
business and weather. ANC is licensed by Sky International AG to use Sky
trademarks and domain names in connection with its operation and distribution
of channels and services. ANC’s channels consist of Sky News Live, Sky News
Business, Fox Sports News, Sky News Weather, Sky News UK, Sky News Extra, Sky
News Extra 1, Sky News Extra 2, Sky News Extra 3 and Sky News New Zealand. ANC
channels are distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand and available on
Foxtel and Sky Network Television NZ. ANC also owns and operates the
international Australia Channel IPTV service and offers content across a
variety of digital media platforms, including mobile, podcasts and social media
websites. In addition, ANC has program supply arrangements with third parties
such as WIN Corporation. ANC primarily generates revenue through monthly
affiliate fees received from pay-TV providers based on the number of
subscribers and advertising.
ANC competes primarily with other news providers
in Australia and New Zealand via its subscription television channels, third
party content arrangements and free domain website. Its Australia Channel IPTV
service also competes against “over-the-top” IPTV subscription-based news
providers in regions outside of Australia and New Zealand.
This is a corporation
which admits to having assets of over $16 billion in June 2018 - $2 billion of
which was held as cash or cash equivalents - and yet the Australian Government feels the need to subsidise its weekend programming?
This is the second time in less than two years that the Coalition Government has given News Corp money for programming. Then it was a funding package worth a cool $30 million.
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Monday 24 September 2018
One old man to rule them all and in the darkness bind them?
Octogenarian U.S. citizen, international media mogul and papal knight since1998 Rupert Keith Murdoch is a living example of the perils of concentrated media ownership.
For many in America, the United Kingdom and Australia his name is filed under 'arrogant' 'avaricious' and 'ruthless'.
Media mogul Rupert Keith Murdoch : Google Images |
The Guardian, 20 September 2018:
In his farewell speech
as prime minister last month, Malcolm
Turnbull pointed to “an insurgency” in his own party and “outside forces in
the media” as the architects of his demise.
If there was any doubt
at all who the media forces Turnbull was referring to during those final
minutes in the prime mister’s courtyard in Canberra, there is, after the events
of the past 24 hours, none now.
Rupert Murdoch is
the name firmly in the frame along with his ubiquitous News Corp empire – an
organisation which is accused of playing a major role in orchestrating the
removal from office of not just Turnbull but also Labor’s Kevin Rudd.
In the case of Turnbull
he believed his Liberal colleagues had been gripped by “a form of madness” so
the only way they could see to end the unrelenting internal turmoil and
negative coverage in the media was to cave into it and replace him as leader…..
But the details
that have emerged over the past 48 hours of the role the US-based
Murdoch played during last month’s visit to his Australian assets raise serious
questions about how Australian politics can be swayed by a concentrated media
industry where News Corp dominates.
Turnbull certainly
believes he was the target of a News Corp campaign. When he narrowly fended off
Peter Dutton in a party
room spill on Tuesday 21 August, Turnbull phoned Murdoch to ask him
why he was trying to replace him with the home affairs minister.
Rupert Murdoch intends to transform Australia into a conservative
nation and he wants to put it on the Trump road
Associate Professor David McKnight
Turnbull had watched
horrified as shortly after Murdoch’s arrival in Australia, News Corp, the most
powerful media organisation in the land, turned on him. The Daily Telegraph
warned of “a toxic brawl” over energy policy and that Dutton was preparing to
challenge him. On Sky the night-time commentators Peta Credlin and
Andrew Bolt ramped up their negative coverage of the national energy guarantee
and Turnbull’s performance.
“There was no doubt there was a marked shift
in the tone and content of the News Corp publications once Rupert arrived,” one
of Turnbull’s former staff told Guardian Australia. “And there was no doubt in
our minds that News was backing Dutton.”
The prime minister had
another reason to believe the octogenarian media mogul was driving the negative
coverage – Turnbull had been warned by another media mogul that Rupert wanted
him replaced.
According
to both the Australian Financial Review and the
ABC, Murdoch had told fellow media billionaire Kerry Stokes, owner of
the Seven Network, a few days before that Turnbull should be replaced. Guardian
Australia also reported that Turnbull was warned in a phone call from Stokes
that Murdoch and his media company News Corp were intent on removing him from
power.
Stokes is said to have
replied that the likely result of such a campaign would be to deliver
government to Labor and Bill Shorten. But Murdoch is reported to have brushed
aside such concerns, saying it would only be for three years and he made money
under Labor in the past.
By that week’s end the
deed was done. Turnbull was out as prime minister, replaced
by Scott Morrison after Dutton’s much hyped candidacy failed to get
the numbers....
Read the full article here.
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Saturday 25 November 2017
Quote of the Week
“Trump is 71; Murdoch is 86, and the median age of a prime-time Fox News viewer is 68. Anyone can see where this is going. The grim reaper has become a Democratic poll watcher.” [Journalist Richard Cohen writing in The Washington Post, 13 November 2017]
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Tuesday 25 July 2017
Mr. Turnbull, about those millions.....
ABC Radio Melbourne, “Mornings” program, 17 July 2017:
The federal communications department has refused to release details about $30 million in sports broadcasting funding given to Foxtel, because it says documents about the deal "do not exist".
Senior Producer for ABC Radio Melbourne Mornings, Dan Ziffer spoke to Jon Faine about the money, which was allocated to Foxtel in the 2016 federal budget to support "underrepresented sports."
"There appears to be no paper trail for the $30 million contract," Mr Ziffer said.
"Whatever was done about this deal, it certainly wasn't written down."
Director of the Australian Shareholders Association Stephen Mayne said he believed the government gave Foxtel the money to avoid making an enemy with the Murdoch media.
"Because the free to air networks were all getting a licence fee cut in the budget and the government wants to keep sweet with all of the media," he said.
"They didn't want to have an enemy in the Murdoch's so they just gave them $30 million and then had to come up with a reason."
The
Sydney Morning Herald,
19 July 2017:
Communications minister
Mitch Fifield has come under renewed pressure to explain why Foxtel – and not a
free-to-air network or public broadcaster – was given millions of dollars to
boost coverage of women's and niche sports.
The broadcaster was
assigned $30 million in taxpayer's money over four years in the 2017
federal budget in order to boost "under represented sports" on
subscription television….
Labor is opposed to the
Turnbull government's media reforms and the package has yet to pass the
Senate. Foxtel's funding was able to sail through the upper house because
it was bundled into the government's appropriation bills.
BACKGROUND
Financial
Review, 4
June 2017:
A
spate of recent deals show the influence broadcaster Fox Sports has on the
Australian sporting scene and how it may wield that power in the
future….
Government
subsidies to Fox increase
Fox
will also play a part in any FFA expansion plans for the A-League, with a small
kicker in the rights contract for additional matches as a result of more teams
at any stage of the six-year contract. It will have a say in where the new
teams come from.
Then
there is the budget 2017 deal with the federal government. The government will
provide subscription television worth $30 million over four years to
"maintain and increase coverage of women's sports, niche sports and
high-participation sports which have struggled to get air-time".
Yes,
that means Fox Sports – which already has an iron grip on sport with rights to
all NRL, AFL, Super Rugby and A-League matches and Supercars races – will
receive government funding to show even more sport.
While
the notion of giving money to ensure exposure for so-called lesser sports is a
positive one, it is going to a commercial organisation rather than a government
funded entity such as the ABC or SBS.
ABC
News, 28
December 2016:
Following
a day when there was more coverage of a stomach ache suffered by one male
commentator of one male sport than there was for the entire gamut of women's
sports being played at the moment, a very serious question remains unanswered.
Why,
on the eve of 2017, is the media still failing to report women's sport
adequately while Mark Nicholas' abdominal distress is national news?
Having
covered sport for more than 20 years with NewsCorp Julie Tullberg now teaches
digital journalism at Monash University.
"Yeah
it's pretty funny, I covered AFL many years ago for the Australian and I've
been unwell but when I left the coverage no-one could be bothered writing about
what I went through — if I was pregnant, or whatever — but with men, for someone
live on air for a big event like a Test match, that's newsworthy because they
have such a large audience," Tullberg told ABC NewsRadio.
Turn
on the radio, television, or go online during the 'summer of sport' and there
are updates galore on cricket, basketball and football (the round-ball
variety).
But
you would be excused for thinking only men play these games despite the fact
there are concurrent women's domestic competitions being played at the moment.
In
a country where there are four times as many journalists accredited to cover
the AFL than federal politics you would be right to suggest sport is a key
component of the national culture.
The
past 18 months or so in Australia have been record breaking for women's sport
... new competitions, new pay deals and a new level of respect from sports
bodies themselves.
Unfortunately,
though, that doesn't seem to extend to day-to-day mainstream media coverage.
The
Australian,
19 February 2016:
Subscription
television group Foxtel has reported a 5.5 per cent jump in first-half revenue
to $1.66 billion, driven by strong subscriber growth.
However,
higher programming costs saw earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and
amortisation slip by 7.7 per cent to $434 million.
Foxtel,
which is owned by Telstra and News Corp, the publisher of The Australian,
saw total subscriber growth of 8.1 per cent for the six months ended December
31 and broadcast subscriber growth of 7.4 per cent….
Fox
Sports Australia, which is carried by Foxtel and owned by News Corp,....
Saturday 20 May 2017
Sunday 9 October 2016
ACCC: "If the proposed acquisition proceeds, News will own both The Courier Mail and the local paid newspaper in nearly every city or town in Queensland"
The Australian Securities & Investment Commission’s preliminary view is that the proposed acquisition of Australian Regional Media (part of APN News and Media) by Murdoch’s News Corporation may be likely to substantially lessen competition in the supply of local news and information and/or advertising opportunities to consumers/readers/businesses in Mackay, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Gympie, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba, Ipswich, Warwick, Caboolture/Bribie Island, south west Brisbane, Brisbane northern bayside, Logan, southern Gold Coast in Queensland and Tweed Heads on the Far North Coast in NSW.
The matter of competition is not an issue in the Clarence Valley at the southern boundary of Far North Coast as there is only one local paid newspaper, The Daily Examiner, and News Corp’s existing substantial shareholding in APN News and Media ensures that articles from its existing media platforms already dominate much of that local paper’s column inches.
Australian Securities & Investment Commission
News release
6 October 2016
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released a Statement of Issues on the proposed acquisition of Australian Regional Media (ARM) from APN News and Media (ASX: APN) by News Corporation (ASX:NWS).
The proposed acquisition would combine the two main newspaper publishers in Queensland, adding ARM’s community and regional publications in Queensland and northern New South Wales to News’ extensive portfolio of community, regional, state, and national publications.
The ACCC is investigating the effect that this would have on competition for both readers and advertisers.
“One area of focus is the loss of competition between ARM’s paid regional newspapers and News’ The Courier Mail.
If the proposed acquisition proceeds, News will own both The Courier Mail and the local paid newspaper in nearly every city or town in Queensland.
This may result in a reduction of quality and diversity of content available to readers. Reinforcing that concern is that both News and ARM have a strong presence in online news through their websites associated with the Queensland newspapers,” ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said.
“The ACCC is seeking to understand whether the competitive tension between News and ARM is an important factor in maintaining quality and range of content, or whether the threat of readers shifting to alternatives, particularly alternative online news sites, will competitively constrain News after the acquisition.”
ARM publishes paid daily regional papers in Mackay, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Gympie, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba, Ipswich and Warwick.
The ACCC will be looking closely at these areas.
“In particular the ACCC will test how important diversity of content and opinion is to readers when assessing the extent of competition between papers,” Mr Sims said. ARM and News both also publish overlapping community papers in Caboolture/Bribie Island, south west Brisbane, Brisbane northern bayside, Logan, and Tweed Heads/southern Gold Coast.
These are mostly free papers with a strong local focus. The ACCC is seeking to assess the effect on readers and local advertisers in those areas, and to assess whether the reduction in competition is significant.
“The ACCC will be assessing the importance of diversity of local content in these competing community publications.
The ACCC is also seeking to understand whether advertising opportunities on other media platforms, such as local radio, pamphlets, and online, will constrain prices for advertising in the ARM and News community newspapers,” Mr Sims said.
The ACCC invites further submissions from industry participants in response to the Statement of Issues by 27 October 2016. The ACCC expects to announce its final decision on 1 December 2016.
Background
News is a global media company with subscription television, magazines, newspapers and publishing operations and interests.
In Australia, News publishes a number of state, regional and community newspapers as well as its national publication The Australian.
It also publishes websites associated with many of its newspapers as well as news.com.au.
APN is an ASX-listed Australian company with media, radio, publishing and digital assets in Australia, and outdoor advertising assets in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
The ARM division of APN, which is proposed to be sold to News, includes a large number of mostly regional publications in Queensland and northern NSW, including 12 paid daily, 14 paid non-daily and 32 free non-daily community newspapers.
APN's radio and outdoor assets are not part of the proposed acquisition and will be retained by APN.
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Monday 26 September 2016
ACCC to rule on News Corp's planned purchase of APN News & Media regional print and online newspapers by 29 September 2016
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is currently investigating the proposed acquisition of APN News & Media Limited (APN)'s Australian Regional Media division (ARM) by News Corporation (News) – with the aim of establishing what if any the impact of the proposed acquisition will have on on competition, and whether it will: lower the quality of content, especially local news content; reduce the choices available to readers for local news content; increase newspaper prices and/or increase the price of advertising, especially in newspapers in Queensland and northern New South Wales.
As to lowering the quality of content, especially local news content or reducing the choices available to readers for local news content – well that horse was out the stable door in a flash once Murdoch had acquired the largest single shareholding in APN News & Media.
This will be the extent of News Corp’s print and online stable once the ACCC signs off on this $36.6 million sale:
The
acquirer – News Corporation
News
Corporation (News) is a global diversified media and information services
company with businesses in news and information services, digital real estate
services, book publishing, digital education and, through its investment in
Foxtel Management Pty Limited, subscription television.
In Australia, News, through various indirect,
wholly owned subsidiaries, publishes a number of state, regional and community
newspapers as well as The Australian.
It
also publishes various websites associated with its newspapers as well as
news.com.au. News publishes the following paid print newspapers in Queensland
and northern NSW:
·
The Courier Mail, published daily Monday to Saturday, while the Sunday Mail is
published on Sunday
·
Gold Coast Bulletin, published daily Monday to Saturday
·
Townsville Bulletin, published daily Monday to Saturday
·
Cairns Post, published daily Monday to Saturday (published as the Weekend Post
on Saturdays)
News
also publishes the following community newspapers:
· through Quest Community Newspapers,
13 free community newspapers circulating in various parts of greater Brisbane
as well as Brisbane News, a glossy free magazine distributed to inner city
Brisbane. The 13 free community newspapers are:
o
Albert and Logan News o Caboolture Herald o Pine Rivers Press/North Lakes Times
o
Redcliffe & Bayside Herald
o
City North News o North-West News
o
Northside Chronicle
o
Westside News
o
South-West News/Springfield News
o
City South News
o
South East Advertiser o Southern Star
o
Wynnum Herald
· through Sun Community Newspapers, the
free newspaper The Gold Coast Sun, in four localised editions:
o
Gold Coast Sun Upper North
o
Gold Coast Sun North o Gold Coast Sun Central
o
Gold Coast Sun Tweed / Southern 4
· a number of small community
publications circulating in Cairns and surrounds including The Tablelands
Advertiser, The Tablelander, Innisfail Advocate and the Port Douglas &
Mossman Gazette
· the Bowen Independent, a paid
newspaper published twice a week, and a number of other small community
publications in Townsville and surrounds including The Herbert River Express,
The Northern Miner and The Burdekin Advocate. News also publishes the Weekly
Times, a paid newspaper distributed predominantly in rural Victoria and the
Riverina region. A small number of copies are also distributed in Queensland
and NSW.
News
also publishes or has an interest in a range of online publications including
the following:
·
News.com.au
·
Carsguide.com.au (48.95% interest)
·
Realestate.com.au (majority interest)
·
Careerone.com.au (25% interest)
News, through a wholly-owned
subsidiary, also has a 14.99% interest in APN......
The
target business – ARM
The
target business – ARM The ARM business comprises:
· 12 paid daily, 14 paid non-daily and
32 free non-daily, community newspapers circulating in various parts of
south-east and regional Queensland and northern NSW
· 14 specialist print newspapers
including 'seniors', 'agriculture' and 'big rigs' titles · 4 specialist business-to-business
magazines for the education and health care sectors
· 60 websites including masthead
websites, websites for the specialist print newspaper titles, other websites
not linked to a print title and classifieds website finda.com.au
· printing facilities located in
Yandina, Warwick and Rockhampton in Queensland. A full list of ARM’s print
publications is set out below:
North Queensland (Mackay
region)
·
Daily Mercury
·
The Midweek 5
·
Whitsunday Times
·
Whitsunday Coast Guardian Central Queensland
·
The Morning Bulletin
·
The Observer
·
Capricorn Coast Mirror
·
Central Telegraph
·
Central Queensland News Wide Bay Burnett
·
NewsMail
·
Fraser Coast Chronicle
·
The Gympie Times
·
Guardian
·
Isis Town & Country
·
Central & North Burnett Times
·
Hervey Bay Observer
·
The Maryborough Herald
·
Cooloola Advertiser
·
Hervey Bay Independent
South-East Queensland -
Sunshine Coast
·
Sunshine Coast Daily
·
Sunshine Coast Sunday
·
Noosa News
·
Coolum & North Shore News
·
Maroochy Weekly
·
Kawana Weekly
·
Caloundra Weekly
·
Nambour Weekly
·
Buderim Chronicle South-East Queensland (Greater Brisbane and Ipswich)
·
Caboolture News
·
Bribie Weekly
·
The Logan Reporter
·
The Satellite
·
Bayside Northern Suburbs Star
·
The Queensland Times
·
The Ipswich Advertiser South-West Queensland
·
Warwick Daily News
·
The Chronicle
·
Stanthorpe Border Post
·
Dalby Herald
·
Gatton, Lockyer and Brisbane Valley Star
·
Laidley Plainland Leader
·
South Burnett Times
·
Southern Downs Weekly 6
·
Balonne Beacon
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The Western Star
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Western Times
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Chinchilla News and Murilla Advertiser
Northern NSW (Gold
Coast, Tweed and northern NSW)
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Tweed Daily News
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Tweed Daily News – Community Edition
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The Northern Star
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The Daily Examiner
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The Woolgoolga Advertiser
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Byron Shire News
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Ballina Shire Advocate
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Lismore Echo
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The Richmond River Express Examiner
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Coastal Views
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The Coffs Coast Advocate
Specialist publications
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Surat Basin News
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Rural Weekly (five editions, including a Northern Territory edition)
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Big Rigs
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CQ Industry
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Style Magazine
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Seniors Newspaper (eight different editions distributed in South-East
Queensland and NSW)
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APN Educational Media publications (business-to-business publisher of Education
Review, Nursing Review, Aged Care Insite and Campus Review
Labels:
ACCC,
APN,
New Corp,
newspapers,
Northern Rivers,
Rupert Murdoch
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