Absolutely. agree 100%. But workplace dynamics change over time and I’m sure we’ve all had jobs where the level of bad eventually increases and overtakes or negates any level of good and it gets to a point where you have to move on.
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You’d read that CBD article and think that Haigh tee’d off against his former employer - turns out it doesn’t really coalesce with the podcast
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News Corp launches its new Health of the Nation campaign today.
Citation in Australia Day awards
Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the General Division
Penelope Anne Fowler
For significant service to the community through a range of organisations.
National Portrait Gallery
Chair, since 2022.
Board Member, since 2017.
Committee Member, current.
Director, National Portrait Gallery Foundation, current.
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Deputy Chairman, since 2016.
Board Member, since 2014.
Australian Ballet
Board Member, 2012-2022.
Member, Nomination and Remuneration Committee, 2012-2022.
Not-for-Profit Sector
Chair, Good Friday Appeal, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, since 2013.
Supporter, Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Ambassador, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation, since 2021.
Ambassador, Second Bite, 2009-2021.
News Corporation Australia
Chairman, Herald and Weekly Times, since 2013.
Victorian Community Ambassador, since 2013.
Board Roles - Other
Board Member, Tourism Australia, since 2019.
Advisory Board Member, Bank of Melbourne Foundation, since 2017.
Advisory Board Member, Visy, since 2016.
Professional Affiliations
Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors, current.
Member, Chief Executive Women, current.
Supporter, National Council of Women, current.
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Peter Lalor, who has been The Australian’s chief cricket writer for the past 30 years, has taken redundancy, with today his last day. He will continue to be part of Seven and SEN’s cricket coverage.
The Australian’s associate editor based in Melbourne, Ellen Whinnett, has also taken a redundancy.
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Not really surprised he has left only a couple of months after Gideon Haigh departed. A lot of his comments on Twitter seemed at odds with the editorial position of The Australian. I felt like it was only a matter of time really.
The article also mentions that he is facing health challenges.
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Sorry to hear about Pete’s health issues, he’s a great contributor and cricket writer. I hope he turns up somewhere else soon, when the time and situation allows.
Though with both he and Gideon now gone, there goes any last remaining reason to want to read The Australian again.
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Tim May mentioned it in passing in an interview on Seven during on one of the test matches, as far as I can see it was the only real mention of it anywhere (until this article), unless Peter himself covered it in one of his articles.
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Paywall:
What’s Times Radio actually like?
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Only had a quick listen but seemed a bit like Radio National.
@TV-Expert what are the two sided deals Barrenjoey are making about SCA?
Who knows - maybe if the newspapers disappeared, more people would want to listen to the news when they got to their office and radio listening would pick up a bit.
Every newspaper has to cover the major stories, sports and some local stories to keep people interested. Everything else is unnecessary and while ‘nice to have’, not ‘must have’. Just as music radio got rid of news and commentary and have done everything they can to strip down costs, newspapers are doing the same.
Look at all the on-going battles between corporate and the publishers/editors at the newspapers they own.
Once Rupert has gone to be with Lis and Keith, his kids will quickly shed the things he owns that no longer make sense in the 2020s - dead tree newspapers etc.
Think of Kezza’s death in 2005 and The Bulletin – it didn’t matter a damn that it had been going since before Federation and famous poets and writers had contributed to it – sentimentalism doesn’t put any food on the table.
Here’s hoping. There’s a lot of markets where the news concentration is high and with them out, the chilling effect declines.
Immediate effect in former APN markets where News closed the printed edition.
Australia’s sixth largest city, the Gold Coast will also benefit when the Bulletin merges with the Courier Mail in time.
In Mackay, the News Corp paper is by far and away the most objective of the three print/web outlets.
I wonder what vacuum News Corp leaving these markets will cause. I guess we can look at Ayr as an indicator. The Burdekin Advocate more or less completely shut down and was replaced with an antivaxxer, conspiracy peddling newspaper that is entirely dependent on advertising from the coal lobby. This was replicated in Bowen. In Stanthorpe. In Ingham. In Cardwell.
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Years ago The Australian had a really good media section, and back then I’d even buy the paper on Mondays just for its media section, but these days it’s incredibly biased, politically-motivated and can be loose with the truth, particularly against the ABC or anything they deem to be “woke”. I wouldn’t pay a cent for it, now.
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