A staff insurrection, board dispute and fallout with global partners has finally ended with the resignation of Andrew Jaspan as editor of The Conversation in Australia.

The global Google boycott keeps on rolling with the Australian government the latest big spender to suspend advertising on Google's YouTube platform.

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The federal government has joined the global boycott of advertising on Google, announcing it would "suspend all non-corporate campaign advertising from the YouTube platform".

TPG may now wait until after Fairfax completes the spin-off of digital real estate group, Domain which is scheduled to be completed before the end of the calendar year, before it makes any takeover move.

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It appears almost a fait accompli that Fairfax Media is now in play. How the giant private equity group TPG, which has reportedly acquired just under 5 per cent of the company's shares, runs the process or deals with the assets is yet unclear.

It's been advertised as the "best job on the planet". And there's a long list of criteria for the successful candidate.

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Telstra is the latest Australian company to join the boycott of YouTube over fears its brand was being associated with bigoted or extremist content.

News Corporation's Fox Sports has sparked a revolt from the powerful NSW and Queensland clubs lobby after proposing massive subscription increases.

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What started last week as a trickle in Australia looks like turning into a mini avalanche.

Bunnings, Foxtel and Caltex have joined the cascading global advertiser boycott of YouTube.

Holden and Kia have suspended all advertising from YouTube after they unwittingly paid to promote their cars alongside an offensive video that directed misogynistic insults at journalist and businesswoman Ita Buttrose.

In a major challenge to Foxtel and Telstra, Fetch TV is launching a new multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to "come out of hiding" and promote itself directly to consumers.

If anyone needs a reminder of the bond between sport and commercial television in this country it should be remembered it was the 1956 Olympics that finally brought TV screens into our lounge rooms.

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Carlton & United Breweries has pulled up stumps on its 20-year sponsorship of the Australian cricket team.

The little party Olivia Gillen threw last year is part of a $2.5 billion-plus problem for Australia's television networks.

A UK-led boycott of Google's programmatic advertising is unlikely to spread to Australia, according to local media buyers.

Major advertisers across Europe are still appearing alongside extremist YouTube videos days after technology giant Google said it was taking steps to protect its clients from inadvertently supporting hate.

A UK boycott over concerns that ads could run alongside offensive videos has spread across the Atlantic as some of the heaviest US ad spenders pulled back, potentially costing Google and YouTube hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business.

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Justin Milne, the new chairman of the ABC, is a former filmmaker and serial entrepreneur who has been thinking about the future of television delivered over the internet for more than 20 years. 

Telecommunications company TPG has reported nearly 30 per cent growth in underlying profit for the first half of the current financial year.

NBN board member and former Telstra executive Justin Milne is expected to be appointed the new chair of the ABC by the Turnbull government later this week.

Google, the primary revenue driver for Alphabet Inc., announced changes to its advertising policies after major brands pulled ads from the platform because they appeared alongside offensive content, such as videos promoting terrorism or anti-Semitism.

While rivals WIN and Nine battle head-on for local news viewers, Mark Ferguson's Seven News from Sydney is the winner at 6pm.

A curious trend emerged in the half-year reporting season among Australia's television companies. Something worthy of investigation by Detective Humphrey Goodman. 

The former lover of Seven West Media boss Tim Worner has made good on her threat to sue the company.

Rupert Murdoch's $18.7 billion bid to takeover Sky News in the UK has been referred to the media regulator with the tory government citing concerns about "broadcasting standards" and "media plurality."

Disney's latest re-imagining, Beauty and the Beast, marks a big test of the company's strategy of using live actors to make beloved animated tales more relevant.

Siobhan McKenna resigns from the Ten board to rejoin Lachlan Murdoch at News Corp.

Sportswear giant Adidas has been aggressively defending its logo. Now companies are pushing back against the "bully".