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Potential tech giant tax welcomed by news outlets, despite lingering questions

A joint select committee has called for the creation of a new ‘Digital Affairs Ministry’ and suggested a big tech tax. Crikey asked media industry figures how they felt about the proposal.

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Crikey sacks columnist Guy Rundle for text to ABC that claimed ‘every grope is now sexual assault’

Exclusive: CEO Will Hayward calls comments ‘appalling’ and that he would ‘no longer be publishing his work’

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‘Have wanted to subscribe for quite a time,’ writes a Crikey fan. ‘But I keep stumbling over the starting line.’ We enlisted our CEO to answer their questions…

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An exposé of whatever-it-takes culture, Eric Beecher’s The Men Who Killed the News is an idealistic book for the times

Eric Beecher is a rare beast: a combination of journalist, media owner and idealist. In 1984, aged 33, he became the youngest-ever editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and he has worked around the world as a journalist. He is currently chair and the largest shareholder in Private Media, owner…

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Gina Rinehart tried to censor Crikey articles using ‘ridiculous’ trademark request to tech companies

A Hancock spokesperson denied that the company had tried to censor Crikey’s reporting, instead blaming a third party who “inadvertently” filed takedown requests on their behalf.

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War criminals, surgeons, Murdoch: What a wild defamation year we had in 2023

Defamation law had a 2023 to remember, with some of the biggest cases in Australian history coming before the courts.

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From ‘crazy’ to Walkley: Australian Financial Review’s PwC tax leaks scoop takes top journalism prize

Edmund Tadros and Neil Chenoweth take home Gold Walkley while eight women honoured for outstanding contributions. Plus: Crikey job cuts

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Learning the hard way

One in three Australian children failed literacy and numeracy exams in this year’s NAPLAN testing, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce the date for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum in Adelaide next week.

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Lachlan Murdoch pays Crikey $1.3m in legal costs over dropped defamation suit

Fox Media chief executive pays costs on condition that almost $600,000 in crowdfunding raised by Crikey will be donated to press freedom group

The Guardian - AU

Lachlan Murdoch pays Private Media $1.3m costs, ending high-profile defamation saga

The Fox News CEO sets condition that Private Media donates all GoFundMe donations to the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom.

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Crikey’s editorial guidelines

We’re publishing these guidelines with the aim of transparency, clarity for our contributors, and accountability to our readers.

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Crikey’s silence deafening as Guy Rundle launches new book

The site hasn’t published anything by its correspondent-at-large since he was roundly condemned for a piece about Brittany Higgins. Plus: News Corp at odds with the press council

The Guardian - AU

Crikey issues lengthy second apology after opinion piece on Brittany Higgins

Editors of the online news outlet vow to change editorial processes after taking down controversial article

The Guardian - AU

An editorial from Crikey’s leadership

With regards to a decision to unpublish an article by Guy Rundle last week.

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Ben Roberts-Smith is now undefamable, thanks to the contextual truth defence

In the Roberts-Smith and Lachlan Murdoch cases, the publishers ran a lesser-known defence that allowed a different approach.

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How a small legal concession made a massive change to the dimensions of Murdoch v Crikey

As the March trial date drew near, Murdoch suddenly sought to amend his case. The consequences were enormous.

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Private Media is banking on Lachlan Murdoch paying at least 80% of its legal costs

$400,000 is still in play as Crikey’s publisher moves to convince the Federal Court that Lachlan Murdoch should pay indemnity costs.

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Tim Wilson’s Anzac Day wreath stunt

Former Liberal MP Tim Wilson is slammed for his ‘disrespectful stunt’ of pointedly laying a wreath at an Anzac Day service in his former seat saying his successor, Zoe Daniel, wasn’t ‘at an Anzac Day service in her community’, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton sinks even lower in voter popularity…

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Murdoch's decision to drop Crikey defamation case is 'best case scenario' for everyone

The legal to and fro surrounding the 2021 US Election has seen Fox News retreat from its second defamation case this week.

The Guardian - AU

The mouse that roared: how a little Australian website stared down Murdoch’s millions

Incensed by an opinion piece, Lachlan Murdoch came at Crikey with guns blazing. But in the end he walked away – for the second time in a week

The Independent UK

Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation suit against Australian outlet after Fox News’ Dominion settlement

‘Murdoch sued us, and then dropped his case. We are proud of our stand. We won’

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Crikey claims victory as Murdoch drops lawsuit; Queensland doubles EV rebate; and frustrating AFL coverage

Media scion discontinues case days after Fox News settled with Dominion in a separate lawsuit in the US

AFP

Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch drops January 6 defamation case

Sydney (AFP) - Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday abruptly dropped a high-profile defamation case against an Australian website that accused his family and firm of fuelling the 2021 US Capitol riots.

AFP

Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch drops January 6 defamation case in Australia

Sydney (AFP) - Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped a high-profile defamation case against an Australian website that accused his family's conservative media empire of fuelling the 2021 US Capitol riots.

Reuters

Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation lawsuit against Australian news website

Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch dropped a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news site over an opinion piece he said accused him of complicity in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying the defendant was trying to generate publicity.

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