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| UpdatedVeteran sports commentator Bruce McAvaney makes public he has been diagnosed with leukaemia.
Topics: media, leukaemia, olympics-summer, australian-football-league, athletics, sport, australia
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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister eulogises Bill Leak as a talented satirist and "the best and funniest raconteur" in an address at a public memorial service in Sydney for the controversial cartoonist, who died last week.
Topics: death, media, print-media, information-and-communication, arts-and-entertainment, australia
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| UpdatedAmber Harrison hires prominent barrister Julian Burnside QC, who confirms she will now counter-sue Seven West Media as her high-profile battle against her former employer moves to a new level.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, media, industry, courts-and-trials, australia
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| UpdatedTongan Prime Minister, Akilisi Pohiva, is defending his call for the national Broadcasting Commission to be closed down or sold off.
Topics: government-and-politics, media, journalism, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedA woman is removed from the Q&A audience as the controversial cartoonist's work is discussed and Canadian singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright warns Australia is "a little far behind" on dealing with racial issues.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, opera-and-musical-theatre, music-industry, books-literature, theatre, media, australia
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A rare collection of newspapers from a small rural town in the NSW Hunter Valley is being preserved.
Topics: media, history, community-and-society, dungog-2420, university-of-newcastle-2308
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On the 28th birthday of the World Wide Web, its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee writes an open letter warning of emerging trends that threaten its underlying principles.
Topics: internet-technology, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, internet-culture, information-and-communication, social-media, media, united-kingdom
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Seven West Media announces the retirement of its WA chief executive, saying Chris Wharton agreed it was "an appropriate time" for him to retire.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, media, wa
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Expect more changes, possibly to flagship programs like 7.30, Lateline and the 7pm news, ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has warned.
Topics: abc, broadcasting, media, information-and-communication, australia
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| UpdatedExpect more changes, possibly to flagship programs like 7.30, Lateline and the 7pm news, ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie warns.
Topics: broadcasting, abc, media, rural-media, information-and-communication, melbourne-3000
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Stuart Simson, chairman of media agency Switch Digital, said the announcement of funding cuts by ABC Managing director Michelle Guthrie was merely facing up to the digital reality.
Topics: media, abc, broadcasting, australia
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| UpdatedThe ABC will shed as many as 200 management jobs to help pay for a $50 million Content Fund and new positions in regional areas, under a significant restructure announced by managing director Michelle Guthrie.
Topics: media, information-and-communication, abc, broadcasting, australia
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| UpdatedThe Oscar-winning actress accuses Hollywood of exporting a "not-very-good image of women", and is working behind the scenes to bring gender balance to American films and TV shows.
Topics: media, film, television, community-and-society, women, sydney-2000
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Amber Harrison's planned counter claim against Seven West Media could contain "scurrilous and scandalous material", the NSW Supreme Court is told.
Topics: media, industry, business-economics-and-finance, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, nsw
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Respected ABC journalist Mark Colvin's organ donation story is the inspiration for a new play about him, the kidney and its donor — prominent businesswoman Mary-Ellen Field.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, theatre, media, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFormer US president George W Bush defends the role of a free press in the wake of Donald Trump's attacks on the media, saying he considers the media to be indispensable to democracy.
Topics: donald-trump, us-elections, immigration, media, print-media, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedDonald Trump is bypassing mainstream media outlets, which he calls "fake news", and giving favour to conservative news organisations. So how should the media respond?
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, media, united-states
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| UpdatedNews organisations including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and Politico are barred from joining an informal, on-the-record White House press briefing.
Topics: donald-trump, media, information-and-communication, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedAn opposition party leader in Fiji is convinced that a Fiji TV reporter has been moved away from reporting on politics due to pressure from above.
Topics: media, political-parties, pacific, fiji
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Jill Bottral from NMN Co and Carina James from Cow Creek Station speak about the difficulties of connecting remote users to the Sky Muster satellite.
Topics: media, rural-media, beef-cattle, internet-technology, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800, katherine-0850
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| UpdatedA cattle producer says a NBN satellite internet installer struggled to find her property using a helicopter, despite having GPS coordinates.
Topics: media, rural-media, beef-cattle, internet-technology, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800, katherine-0850
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| UpdatedSeven West chairman Kerry Stokes and director Jeff Kennett are criticised by a NSW Supreme Court judge for their public comments vilifying former employee Amber Harrison.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, media, australia
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| UpdatedFairfax almost trebles its profit, posting net earnings of $83.7 million, while also confirming that it is investigating the spin-off of its real estate business Domain.
Topics: media, company-news, australia