News Corp should make its intentions to close or amalgamate any of its network of regional newspapers as quickly as possible, the group's former chief executive Mark Jamieson said in Mooloolaba on Friday.

Media experts are cautiously optomistic about the News Corp buyout of APN's regional newspapers, but say 

Network Ten chairman David Gordon has taken aim at Facebook and its fake news scandal. "Lies and deception," he says.

News Corp's plan to buy APN's regional Queensland newspapers has been given the all clear by the competition watchdog

Fairfax Media and the ABC have won a defamation case brought against them by a former National Australia Bank financial planner.

In the latest sign of the struggle for revenue by Australia's television industry, a new television advertisement promoting television will start airing on Thursday.

News Corporation has fully acquired Australian News Channel, which produces Sky News in Australia and New Zealand. 

Property listings and content business Domain Group has set a number of new records for audience reach, according to the most recent figures.

Teen magazine Dolly has axed its print edition after 48 years of publishing.

Investors wiped $874 million off Vocus Communications' market capitalisation on Tuesday after its earnings guidance fell short of expectations.

Optus pre-paid customers who are prepared to have advertisements on their mobile phone's lock screen can earn a free gigabyte of data each month, worth about $10.

Sporting, cooking and renovating contests dominated free-to-air TV ratings in Canberra in 2016. But Aunty was the overall victor.

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The scorecard has been released for the annual ratings battle, and there are no real winners.

NBN Co applied for credit rating without an explicit government guarantee even though it is wholly owned by the Federal government, it emerged on Friday. 

Scrapping the loan scheme for vocational training is costing job search site Seek $8 million and forcing it into its first ever redundancy program, its chief executive has revealed.

It wasn't your early-morning brain failing to function: ABC radio really did go silent Tuesday morning.

It has been a very good day for one of Australia's wealthiest fund managers, Hamish Douglass, who lifted his net worth by more than $227 million as the sun rose on Tuesday.

The New Daily, a free news site set up by six super funds as a 'commercial venture' three years ago, has been handed over to a single parent fund and is barely profitable after three years.

Video streaming will be faster and better quality than high definition broadcasting within a decade, according to the head of media at delivery platform Akamai.

Telstra has flagged better returns for shareholders thanks to more than $10 billion it will get from the government-owned company rolling out the NBN.

Free-to-air TV networks should get first crack at the rights to stream big sporting events on the internet as well as on television, Seven West Media is arguing

Nine Entertainment has come close to a first strike against its remuneration report as shareholders railed against the high pay awarded to executive and non- executive directors.

Nine Entertainment Company's chief executive has warned of a "short and difficult to predict" advertising market, and instead highlighted to shareholders the company's other sources of revenue at the annual general meeting today. 

As it became clear that Donald Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election, a private chat sprang up on Facebook among several vice presidents and executives of the social network.

Singapore Telecommunications will "vigorously defend" a $326 million tax bill it received last week from the Australian Tax Office, dating back to its acquisition of Optus in 2001 for $17.2 billion. 

The rights to English Premier League soccer delivered 107,000 new customers to Optus in the three months to September 30.

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Many journalists did stories about Americans' anger, but we did not take them seriously.

Chairman Michael Miller says the publisher will look at resourcing, processes and the possibility of redundancies to achieve $40 million in cost cuts.

Government-owned broadband company NBN Co has increased quarterly revenues to $181 million and is meeting its roll out and revenue targets, management revealed on Tuesday morning.