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Fourth gen Murdoch joins the family trade
Lachlan’s son joins the family business, arriving in News Corp’s Sydney newsroom.
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- Mark Di Stefano
This Month
- Court
- Lehrmann trial
Lehrmann rape hearing adjourned for ‘no-case’ argument
A rape charge hearing against former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been adjourned, with his defence set to argue he has no case to answer.
- Rex Martinich
All in the family for Gil McLachlan’s fantastic corporate adventure
The new jobs for the former AFL CEO include advising Blackstone, where his cousin is chairman of private equity.
- Mark Di Stefano
Nothing funny about AI as advertisers look to laugh off uncertainty
A new humour category at this week’s Cannes Lions festival seeks to highlight the “human connection” in a sector beset by a crisis in creativity.
- Daniel Thomas
Social media set to overtake TV as top source of news
The survey findings come as a Labor-led parliamentary committee demands tech firms and media companies face questions about the influence of such platforms.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
What restructure? Church and state blur over at national broadsheet
The bar for what’s newsworthy in media is sometimes difficult to gauge. News Corp’s massive restructure, and the high-profile exits that followed, was not.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Exclusive
- Media & marketing
Bruce Gordon backs Nine as $550m stake fuels succession questions
The billionaire says the publishing and broadcast giant is a company “worth investing in” despite turmoil, controversy and the abrupt departure of its chairman.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Labor insider Sabina Husic snapped up by TikTok
The ByteDance-owned video app needs friends in Canberra, turning to Sabina Husic in a new lobbying role.
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- Mark Di Stefano
The tallest tales from 50 years of Chanticleer
Movers and shakers from around Australia helped celebrate 50 years of The Australian Financial Review’s revered Chanticleer column. Here are the top tales and anecdotes from each of our past columnists.
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- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Australian business is at a crossroads. Can we get out of our own way?
Chanticleer’s 50th anniversary celebration showed Australia’s long period of prosperity and growth will be challenged by geopolitics, regulation and competition.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Chanticleer’s half-century of crowing
How hardwired Chanticleer remains in the upper echelons of the corporate world is measured by Thursday’s sold out 50th anniversary celebration in Sydney.
- The AFR View
The leak that got away: Chanticleer on Foxtel’s $2b losses
Seven former Chanticleer columnists reminisced about their biggest stories on Thursday to celebrate the column’s 50th anniversary. Here’s what they said.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Fifty years on, it’s time to share the secret origin story of Chanticleer
I had lined up a major scoop to launch my first Chanticleer column on July 8, 1974, founding Chanticleer columnist Robert Gottliebsen reveals.
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- Robert Gottliebsen
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Through 50 years of change, Chanticleer’s mission endures
While the corporate landscape has shifted over five decades, the ingredients of the Chanticleer column remain the same: a healthy degree of scepticism, a dash of humour, and an eternal sense of curiosity.
- James Thomson
Kim Williams shares Paul Keating’s lesson on art of persuasion
The ABC’s new 72-year-old chairman plans to use a speech next week to argue a tsunami of American and British content is diluting Australian culture.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Big salmon hooks a sick media industry
Swaths of the Tasmanian media market have been gobbled up by a Liberal-linked PR firm. Its most recent client is the powerful salmon industry.
- Mark Di Stefano
Inside Chemist Warehouse’s $600m money spinner
It has nothing to do with medicine. Instead, its advertising business – retail media – spans everything from an in-house ad agency to television and radio.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Sam Buckingham-Jones
Catherine West takes Nine’s helm – and crisis – from Peter Costello
The broadcast and publishing giant’s new chair is in the biggest role of her life, steering a company reeling through an uncertain future. Is she up for it?
- Max Mason and Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Nine’s needed tough calls
After Peter Costello’s self-destruction, new chairman Catherine West’s challenge is to turn around Nine into a growth business.
- The AFR View
Bruce Gordon, 95, bulks up interest in Nine
The billionaire increased his interest in Nine to more than 25 per cent, giving the billionaire businessman outsize influence just hours before a board meeting that resulted in the resignation of the company’s chairman Peter Costello.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
