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Documentaries get Screen Australia cash
TV ratings Seven crushes the competition
EXCLUSIVE Hedge fund to keep Nine stake
X Factor ends on top-rating note
EXCLUSIVE Macquarie says Jones ruling ignores facts
EXCLUSIVE BBC broadens its reach with FMA deal
EXCLUSIVE Hey Presto: pay's defence ploy revealed
Mystery of Dick and ABC
Ten questions for Matt Tilley
TV ratings Catalyst's cholesterol exposé top TV show
No illegal arrivals on ABC
Dig Music targets listeners Triple J forgot
New revenues from Seven's US foray
TV ratings ABC, multichannels score but Nine wins
TV drama spending at all-time high
Macquarie rejects ACMA censure
Jones wrong on climate change staff pay
Seven dominates flat night
EXCLUSIVE Foxtel nabs Lund as COO
UPDATED Moore-Wilton defends prank comment
War, rock, sex on Seven's menu
EXCLUSIVE Labor's secret job offer for Cassidy
Radio boss shrugs off prank call row
Radio boss plays down prank
Funding announced for production companies
TV RATINGS Seven wins ratings again with X Factor
MCN launches automated trading system
Kidman film gets Screen Australia funding
TV ratings X-Factor fuels bumper ratings at Seven
Nine set to finalise float details
OPINION
MEDIA OPINION
'Ten will need more than a reinvigorated morning slate if it is to have any chance of rebuilding ratings'
I'M a very fortunate fellow - each morning I look over Manly Beach, seven miles from Sydney and a thousand miles from care.
‘No amount of tears and tantrums could take away from the fact finding Richard was and is a very good story.’
TELEVISION viewers with a reverence for things past might have had high hopes for the documentary The King in the Carpark.
'Social media has become a new challenger to radio as the primary community bulletin board'
ON the Blue Mountains train heading home from Sydney 11 days ago I saw a friend post on Facebook: "I can see flames a kilometre away."
'Revelations about the Cassidy appointment have energised our left-leaning cultural guardians'
REVELATIONS about the Cassidy appointment have energised our left-leaning cultural guardians.
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Nick Tabakoff returns as Media Editor after a stint as associate editor of The Daily Telegraph. He is a former business media writer for The Australian and a Walkley Award winner.
Tabakoff and Darren Davidson at 1.96m have the monikers of the “Paper Giants” of the Media team. tabakoffn@theaustralian.com.au
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Melbourne Bureau, Australia
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leysn@theaustralian.com.au Twitter: @leysie
Darren Davidson
Media business writer
Sydney Bureau, Australia
Darren has been a journalist since 2002 in London and Sydney. Prior to joining The Australian, Davidson was editor of Australian media title AdNews. He was first published in his local newspaper aged 14 with an article headlined: “Tackling ‘monsters’ in watery places”.
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Sydney Bureau, Australia
Errol joined The Australian in 1978, making him the longest serving continuous member of staff. He has been chief of staff three times and has worked for the Canberra Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, Northern Territory News and Queensland Country Life. He gave up a job in the wine industry to enter journalism, but no longer drinks the stuff.
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