Seven West Media’s sale of streaming platform Presto to Foxtel this week has killed off another Australian video content platform, as bran…
It’s hard to separate Ron Walker from Melbourne, politics, big business and money. Walker was lord mayor of Melbourne (1974-1976), federal…
Fairfax Media has flagged its intention to make digital acquisitions as part of a wider strategy to transform the business from print to dig…
Billabong founder Gordon Merchant and the board of the stricken surfwear giant have faced intense questioning from shareholders about why a …
It’s easy to focus on the bad news out of the media sector at the moment – perhaps best demonstrated by Fairfax Media’s market value s…
Gina Rinehart made some important discoveries about the Fairfax group last week. The mere suggestion that she could be a seller sent the…
You could be forgiven for thinking that iron ore billionaire Gina Rinehart is on a one-woman crusade to bring back the lost art of writing l…
Single-minded dedication to a cause or a goal or an idea is usually something that society admires. Think of the athlete striving for a gold…
I am about halfway through Adele Ferguson’s excellent biography of Gina Rinehart. It’s a great read, rich with the intricate details of …
Google has won a major Google Business Apps contract, with Fairfax Media adopting the search giant’s cloud-based apps service as part of its…
On the news that Gina Rinehart had sold 3.7% of Fairfax Media it initially appeared that she might have been making good on her threat to d…