News Corp published a special Black Friday edition of MX today, supported by Myer. With Maria Thattil on the cover, the paper provided readers with Black Friday deals and trends covering several categories, such as toys, home appliances, beauty and fashion.
https://mumbrella.com.au/news-corp-brings-back-mx-for-black-friday-edition-858082
UPDATE 6/12
A week of gushing about gas at News Corp climaxed on Friday with the “news” that the gas in the Beetaloo Basin could power Australian homes for 400 years.
To recap: The News Corp tabloids have had a week of advertorial splashes and spreads outlining the gas supply “crisis” fuelling spiralling power prices.
The hero of the story? The gas industry, which is prepared to swoop in and solve everything. Tamboran, for example, is preparing to start drilling in the basin. But the energy infrastructure firm, APA Group, warns ominously that the work could be delayed by legal and environmental challenges.
And the sponsor of the stories? The gas industry, including Tamboran.
The director of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism, Andrew Dodd, accused News Corp of being hypocritical, disgraceful, deceptive in it’s coverage and “an egregious case of poor journalism”.
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Former Mediaweek editor at large James Manning is joining The Australian as a media writer next year, announced The Diary at its final edition for 2024 last week. He will replace Sophie Elsworth who is now News Corp’s Europe correspondent.
James certainly appears to be well respected in media circles. Hopefully he can do something to restore faith in The Australian’s media reporting. His recent predecessors have not done much for objective reporting.
But where will we get the weekly ABC bashing? You know the story that is usually loaded with confected outrage and wrong.
and usually accompanied by a correction issued by ABC by Monday afternoon
Sunday mornings on Sky News I’m told
James has good relationships with all media outlets, so I hope there will be more objective reporting and less bashing of ABC and Nine.
Herald Sun chief football writer and former AFL 360 host Mark Robinson has announced his retirement after four decades in journalism. He will finish on January 31.
A new weekly delicious section will launch in the company’s state and regional mastheads across the country every Wednesday from February 2025.
The new delicious. section will feature food and dining news, recipes, city and regional eat out guides and travel through the lens of food. The delicious. 100 will be revealed alongside the new offering. A special gloss delicious. magazine will also be published quarterly in the state mastheads.
The move to an expanded weekly content offering will see the final regular monthly print edition of delicious be the June 2025 issue.
It means the food section in Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph will move from Tuesdays to Wednesdays.
UPDATE 28/1: there is a note on the top right corner of Kitchen Confidential in today’s Herald Sun.
The Daily Telegraph splashed with an exclusive front-page story on Tuesday, “All Aboard”, quoting the opposition home affairs spokesman, James Paterson, saying Labor had opened the door to illegal boat arrivals and their families.
The online version, by federal political editor Jade Gailberger and headlined “Labor opens door to partners, families of illegal asylum seekers”, said: “More than 21,000 partners and family members of asylum seekers who arrived by boat have been granted permanent Australian visas, new figures show.”
The story was on the front page of the Herald Sun too, and was mentioned more than a dozen times across Channel Nine and Seven’s news programs, Sky News Australia and 3AW. Paterson popped up throughout the day to criticise Labor for the figure, which he said was 21,581.
The story was based on answers to a question on notice from the Greens: “Between 13 February 2023 and 30 September 2024, a total of 2,158 partner and other family stream permanent visas have been granted where the applicant’s sponsor held a resolution of status visa”.
The Tele’s story spilled on to page 2 and an editorial called it Labor’s “immigration debacle”, again quoting the 21,500 figure.
But the News Corp numbers were out by a factor of 10. The Tele had somehow bumped the figure up from 2,168 to 21,581.
After being told by Labor the figure was wrong, the Tele amended the online copy and added a note to the end: “An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that 21,581 visas were granted to partners and family members of asylum seekers. This has been amended in the above copy with the correct figure of 2158.”
On Wednesday the Tele printed a correction of sorts on the letters page, page 20, in the smallest font available. It didn’t say “correction”. Under the headline “For the Record” it said: “A story published on Tuesday incorrectly reported that between February 2023 and September 2024 the federal government granted 21,581 visas to partners and family members of asylum seekers who previously arrived by boat. The correct figure was 2158.”
From The Guardian’s Weekly Beast:
The Sunday Telegraph has undergone a revamp today. Stellar, which used to be a magazine and was paired with TV Guide up until the end of last year, is now just a liftout, combined with most features from the former Insider section which occupied the back pages of the paper. Matt Preston’s food column has disappeared from Stellar altogether.
The sports section, which used to be a liftout, returns to the back pages. Phil Rothfield’s What’s the Buzz column is now found inside the back page.
Funday Telegraph has been reduced to a one page, before classifieds.
In Victoria, the Stellar liftout has added Fiona Byrne’s Just Married column.
And doesn’t he look like a massive wanker. 
