This Month
After losing a deal, Stokes’ newspaper pursued Forrest
The West Australian published dozens of critical articles about Fortescue’s founder after he refused to buy trucks from a related company.
- Updated
- Aaron Patrick
Former NSW Liberal president Geoff Selig dies at 59
The businessman had been the chairman of catalogues and marketing firm IVE Group, which on Monday told investors of his death while on holiday in Europe.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
The WFH January mandate: How bosses are retaining staff
Publisher Hachette offers a range of initiatives to help retain good staff, including a January work from home mandate.
- Sylvia Ramsey
April
- Exclusive
- News Corp
News Corp drafts in PwC as it deals with Meta cash hole
News Corp has tapped PwC Australia to help with its biggest restructure of the last decade as it seeks to deal with Meta ripping tens of millions of dollars out of the Australian news market.
- Max Mason and Sam Buckingham-Jones
Short selling media company long odds for Australia
Defamation claims, insider trading rules and regulatory pressure make the model likely unviable in Australia, says Bronte Capital’s John Hempton.
- Nick Bonyhady
March
‘Every day is hard’: One year since Russia jailed Evan Gershkovich
Since his arrest, the 32-year-old journalist for the Wall Street Journal has been held in the notorious high-security Lefortovo prison in Moscow.
- Katie Robertson
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why we need a public inquiry into US tech giants
There comes a time when too much power in a few hands is a bad thing, and that time is now.
- Ivor Ries
February
Billionaire reveals secret to making money out of music
The founder of WiseTech has just completed his third major investment in the music business.
- Michael Bailey
AFR subscribers can now gift 5 articles a month
Australian Financial Review subscribers can now gift up to five articles each month to colleagues and friends. Here’s how to do it.
January
Tory Maguire elevated to Nine’s top publishing job
Tory Maguire will oversee all of Nine’s publications, including The Australian Financial Review.
Books to watch out for this year
A selection of non-fiction titles that are already generating buzz.
- Foreign Policy
John Pilger, controversial campaigning journalist, dead at 84
John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented.
- Telegraph Obituaries
December 2023
Microsoft, OpenAI sued by New York Times for copyright infringement
OpenAI has faced criticism for scraping text widely from the web to train its popular chatbot; this is the first legal challenge to that practice.
- Mark Bergen
The books flying off the shelves right now
Richard Flanagan’s “best thing yet”, a graphic novel for teenagers, Trent Dalton’s latest novel and ‘dragons and young love’ are flying off bookshop shelves.
- Hannah Wootton
November 2023
Financial Review remains Australia’s most-read premium business title
Over the past four weeks, 1.1 million people read a print edition of The Australian Financial Review.
Southern Cross set to rebuff Catalano
It’s understood that SCA has met and taken a view his proposal is not aligned with their strategy.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
New editor, columnist for Rear Window
Myriam Robin has been promoted to Rear Window editor, and Mark Di Stefano joins the column.
Bursting the ABC’s Canberra bubble
The ABC has admitted it needs to be more “diverse and inclusive”. Here are some program suggestions.
- Rowan Dean
October 2023
- Opinion
- Review
Now Elon Musk is attacking Wikipedia
In the Tesla CEO’s world, no media source can be considered trustworthy, particularly those that criticise him.
- Dave Lee