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“Mining Barbie” Amanda Lacaze accepts her award.

Bonfire of the CEOs: Rear Window’s 2023 year in review

The year ended with a lecture from the mining establishment, but not before a carry-on of CEOs joined the unemployment queue.

  • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano

Yesterday

WiseTech billionaire Richard White.

Billionaire Richard White spends $11m on Rolling Stone’s local owner

The WiseTech founder, worth an estimated $10.5 billion, will bankroll ASX-listed Vinyl Group’s acquisition of The Brag Media.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

This Month

Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino.

Elon Musk’s X in political advertising push to offset revenue falls

Plans for new political ads team to hit $US100 million in sales ahead of US presidential election are met with industry scepticism.

  • Hannah Murphy
Patricia Karvelas will continue to host Q&A in 2024, but with a shorter run.

ABC cuts Q+A schedule by 40pc in 2024

After a tumultuous year involving the departure of host Stan Grant and contentious discussions about Israel and Gaza, the show has been cut to 24 episodes for next year.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Tim Reedy

Higgins said ‘I don’t want to’, lip-reader tells court

Giving evidence in Federal Court, witness Tim Reedy said CCTV footage suggested Bruce Lehrmann had been “plying” Ms Higgins with alcohol that night.

  • Miklos Bolza
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The ABC’s new chair faces a big audience problem

For the first time in its measured history, fewer than two in three Australians interact with the ABC each week.

  • Nick Bonyhady and Sam Buckingham-Jones
Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones

Google, Meta warned: Negotiate new media deals or face mediation

Many of the News Media Bargaining Code deals struck in 2021 are up for renewal next year. The government says it will designate platforms like Meta and Google.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Bruce Lehrmann entering the Federal Court.

Seven Network’s Spotlight goes all in with Bruce Lehrmann

It’s hard to find a good hairdresser today. So it was match made in heaven when one of the broadcaster’s exclusive interviewees, Anthony Koletti, met another.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Lisa Wilkinson and her barrister Sue Chrysanthou, SC, outside the Federal Court in Sydney on Friday.

Wilkinson points to Ten’s lawyers: ‘I trusted the advice’

Giving evidence in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial, journalist Lisa Wilkinson says she deferred to Network Ten’s legal advice.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nine’s outgoing managing director of publishing James Chessell addresses the media after Ben Roberts-Smith lost his defamation case against the outlet’s journalism.

Nine publishing boss James Chessell to depart

The executive oversaw a period of hard-hitting investigative journalism across the company’s mastheads.

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  • Nick Bonyhady
Former The Project host Lisa Wilkinson arriving at Federal Court for Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial against Ten and herself.

Wilkinson denies ‘pride and ego’ drove Logies speech praising Higgins

Former Ten journalist Lisa Wilkinson hit out at Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister over questions she says made her sound like a “cheap tabloid journalist”.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
James Packer sold out of Crown last year for over US$3bn. He’s now bought shares in owner Blackstone.

James Packer buys up $US80m stake in Ten owner, Paramount Global

Mr Packer returned to the world of media earlier this year as an investor in broadcaster Alan Jones’ Australian Digital Holdings.

  • Primrose Riordan
On trial:  (from top left) Matt Bekier, Paula Martin, Greg Hawkins, Harry Theodore, John O’Neill, Katie Lahey, Richard Sheppard, Gerard Bradley, Sally Pitkin, Ben Heap and Zlatko Todorcevski.

ASIC sued Star’s board a year ago. The case will be heard in 2025

ASIC’s case against Star’s board, launched 12 months ago, has come to a standstill because a judge is so busy he can’t hear it until February 2025.

  • Michael Pelly
Seven West chairman Kerry Stokes.

Kerry Stokes walks away from SAS defence charity

The mogul has stepped down from an SAS charity he co-founded.

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  • Mark Di Stefano
Companies backed by Potentia Capital and venture firm EVP are vying for control of Whispir, co-founded by Jeromy Wells.

Potentia promises cash before Christmas to up pressure on Whispir deal

Rival suitor Pendula is expected to reveal its binding offer within days as the private equity firm offers shareholders a speedy deal.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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Kerry Stokes and Ben Roberts-Smith.

BRS emails to stay secret after Stokes agrees to cover Nine’s costs

Kerry Stokes has agreed to pay the costs of Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation case, meaning a cache of emails between the billionaire, his corporate fixer and the disgraced soldier’s legal team will stay secret.

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  • Max Mason
Morry Schwartz has announced he will step back from his media company, Schwartz Media.

Morry Schwartz steps back as publisher of The Monthly, Quarterly Essay

The wealthy publisher and property developer has told staff he will step down as Schwartz Media chairman to give his publications space to grow.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Woolworths and other retailers are expanding into retail media, which includes advertising in store.

Major retailers threaten to siphon away $1.1b in advertising spend

Morgan Stanley says Coles, Woolworths and Amazon are taking market share from media groups. But publishers and broadcasters are fighting back.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Morrow Sodali international chief Christian Sealey.

Morrow Sodali shakes up corporate PR with Citadel-Domestique merger

Christian Sealey, the firm’s international boss, said it worked with almost all the country’s largest listed companies and there was plenty of room for growth.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Lachlan Murdoch has called off his annual Christmas party in Sydney.

Lachlan Murdoch cancels Christmas bash

The Murdochs aren’t having a Christmas party at their Bellevue Hill estate this year; Nine cuts jobs; ABC political editor’s questionable job ad placement.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones