Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media is targeting Australia’s “mainstream middle” with its new nightly digital newspaper,backed by an advertising deal with Gina Rinehart.
Thanks to interest charges,the costs Kerry Stokes might have to pay to Nine over Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case are even greater than first thought.
The media industry’s year was filled with shock resignations,succession plans and landmark court rulings.
Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas has insinuated he’ll spend the Christmas break mulling a long-speculated tilt at state politics after months of public denials.
The move will prevent communications between the former soldier’s lawyers and his chief supporters at Seven from being made public.
The similarity between the stakes of two high-profile defamation cases doesn’t end with the fact that they share the same lawyers.
The industry will remember the departing Seven West Media boss as a great champion of free-to-air television.
Thousands of emails between Seven West Media executives and disgraced former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team will be released to commercial rival Nine.
A Federal Court judge has ordered disgraced former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith to pay a greater proportion of the legal costs incurred by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in his marathon defamation case.
Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources wants a five-year exemption from a Western Australian ban on the export of onshore gas,arguing it would help shore up domestic supply in years to come.
ARN and rich lister Antony Catalano’s pursuit of Southern Cross Austereo has been complicated by media and mining mogul Kerry Stokes’ decision to pick up a near 20 per cent stake in ARN at the weekend.