Roger Ailes, the founder and former CEO of Fox News, has died at the age of 77.

A second American private equity firm has offered to buy Fairfax Media.

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This bidding war is likely to move the 176-year-old media group into foreign hands.

Greg Hywood was also forced to defend his salary and performance bonuses at inquiry.

Has the word Google become so synonymous with online searches that the brand should lose its status as a protected trademark?

The American private equity group stalking Fairfax Media has not yet been granted access to the company's books, a move that would show the board is seriously considering a $2.7 billion offer.

Advertising executive Russel Howcroft has been appointed the new head of the Australian Film Television and Radio School by the federal government.

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The private equity firm has made a new offer for Fairfax Media, valuing the group at about $2.7 billion.

With Fairfax Media's board set to reject private equity group TPG's​ $2.2 billion demerger proposal, sources are saying the media group's suitor is working on a different proposal that will involve a full cash takeover offer for the group.

Aldi is ramping up its marketing efforts with a new brand campaign.

Online job search site Seek reached record prices last week, trading as high as $18.35 in the days after the government's budget.

The music streaming service will be the first major company to carry out a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, cutting out banks and brokers in a move that could change the way companies sell shares.

Looping a team scarf around Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's neck could portend one of AFL's biggest coups. At least that's what Port Adelaide chair David Koch is hoping.

The Manhattan lawyer representing about two dozen people in harassment suits against Fox News lashed out against the Murdoch media empire, seeking to influence regullators over its $20 billion bid to buy the rest of pay-TV provider Sky.

Public probe into the future of journalism in Australia amid sweeping job cuts and fake news.

The financial struggles of Network Ten are weighing on its part-owner Foxtel, which saw its profits wiped out in the latest quarter after writing down the value of its stake in the troubled free-to-air broadcaster.

The board of Fairfax Media is widely expected to reject private equity group suitor TPG amid a lack of shareholder support for the $2.2 billion demerger.

Media stocks have rocketed higher on Monday as investors digest the possibility of a change in media laws and private equity makes an offer for Fairfax Media.

Fairfax Media has released the details of an approach from a TPG Group-led consortium that would see it split up its publishing business.

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TPG Capital has dipped its toes into digital media and real estate businesses before. So what can we learn from that?

Media stocks have rocketed higher on Monday as investors digest the possibility of a change in media laws and private equity makes an offer for Fairfax Media.

Private equity group TPG has approached Fairfax Media about a $2.2 billion demerger.

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Private equity outfit TPG Capital has approached Fairfax Media with a proposal to buy its online real estate business Domain and the company's three big publishing mastheads.

Regional TV broadcasters WIN, Prime and Southern Cross Austereo have welcomed expanded media reforms proposed by the federal government.

Australia's embattled media industry stands on the verge of the biggest ownership shake-up in a generation after the federal government announced a reform package will open the door for a major round of mergers and acquisitions.

The government is cracking down on gambling advertising during live sporting coverage as part of a package of sweeping media reforms.

Just five years after its initial public offering, Facebook is one of the 10 highest market-capitalised public companies in the world. But its gargantuan influence has become its biggest liability.

A plan by the country's top billboard firm to buy its largest rival may jack up the prices charged to advertisers while cutting service levels, a sign it may block the $735 million deal, the competition watchdog has warned.

Journalists at Fairfax Media have voted to go on strike following the company's decision to cut a quarter of the remaining journalists at its major Australian newspapers.