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Australia needs more media diversity – and there are ways to achieve it We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 15, 2021 — 5.00am April 15, 2021 — 5.00am Save Normal text size Advertisement On Monday, while I waited to appear at the Senate inquiry into media diversity in parliament house, Canberra, Malcolm Turnbull was skewering News Corp with all the skills he’s acquired in courts of law and houses of parliament. He was a tough act to follow. The former PM accused News Corp of everything from intimidation to terrorism...

March 1, 2021 9:46 Private Media’s business masthead, Smart Company, has launched a paid subscription service for business owners, Smart Company Plus. The announcement: Private Media’s business masthead, Smart Company, today has launched a new content service for SMEs and business owners. Called Smart Company Plus the subscriber-only resource will contain expert guides, tools and templates, exclusive interviews and extensive company profiles detailing business strategies and tactics. Priced at $9.90/month or $99 for a year, the new subscription service aims to ‘lighten the mental load�...

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd used an appearance at a Senate inquiry to compare Facebook’s news ban to the dominance of News Corp in the print media market.

Broadcast: Published: Transcript minus But now to other matters of national importance and the search engine that is on everyone’s lips: MADELEINE MORRIS: … chances are it has been a long time since you’ve used Microsoft’s Bing search engine … - News Breakfast, ABC, 4 February, 2021 FIONA WILLAN: … instead of doing a Google search, maybe we’ll soon be doing a Bing search. - Today, Channel Nine, 4 February, 2021 MARC FENNELL: Don’t make me use Bing. Come on.  - News Breakfast, ABC, 30 January, 2021 So why the sudden love — or loathing — for Microsoft’s inferior searc...

February 5, 2021 10:43 Google News Showcase has launched in Australia, paying a first round of mastheads – owned by Australian Community Media (ACM), Private Media, Schwartz Media, Solstice Media and The Conversation – for news through licence deals that will last at least three years. The launch, which was foreshadowed last week after originally being halted when the draft News Media Bargaining Code was released, suggests a softening of Google’s campaign against the code. Mumbrella understands Showcase would ideally sit under a revised code and allow publishers to progress to arbitra...