This Month
TechDay ends links with PR firm after ‘exasperating’ requests
What happened between TechDay and PR firm Archetype?; The Daily Telegraph’s new TV play; SBS’s ad revenue bucks the market.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones and Mark Di Stefano
ABC redundancy payouts leapt fivefold, annual report reveals
The ABC’s latest annual report, tabled in parliament on Friday, reveals the public broadcaster spent $22 million to pay out exiting staff.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
The ABC can make more money, says its new ex-Netflix content boss
Chris Oliver-Taylor wants to create fewer and better TV shows and films – and find ways to make more money by selling them abroad.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Tabcorp’s problem child sucks on the TikTok pipe
There’s a cursed marriage between Australia’s gambling industry and the China-owned TikTok.
- Mark Di Stefano
Veteran ABC journalists are out, TikTokers are in
The ABC has disclosed the numbers on its fleet of TikTok makers, revealing they use burner phones to post to the China-owned app.
- Mark Di Stefano
September
Republicans attack each other but fail to shake Trump’s dominance
None of the seven remaining primary candidates delivered a defining moment in the second Republican debate that would pull them decisively away from the pack.
- Nancy Cook and Stephanie Lai
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Hollywood screenwriters beat the studios doing what they do best
In the court of public opinion, the studios got wiped out by the writers union, and none of their high-priced media consultants could do a thing about it.
- Jason Bailey
Hate speech doesn’t belong in misinformation laws: TikTok
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute conversely wants the planned laws strengthened, with authorities given power to bar social sites from the country.
- Nick Bonyhady
How social media is fuelling a $9b export boom
A new breed of digital cultural entrepreneurs have doubled their online content to six million in two years in an industry born in people’s living rooms.
- Nina Hendy
How these women turned their fame into fortune
Three successful women share their experiences of turning their hobbies and passions into professions.
- Alexandra Cain
China-owned TikTok’s Aussie hiring spree seeks ‘tax optimisation’ pro
After pitching to hire people sacked by Meta and Twitter late last year, TikTok wants someone from a major accounting firm to help with “tax optimisation”.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones and Mark Di Stefano
The most popular museum on YouTube may surprise you
A collection of armoured vehicles on a once-secret military base “in the middle of nowhere” has got more video subscribers than the Louvre.
- Alex Marshall
- Exclusive
- Social media
Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ stalls after launch
Despite a hugely successful launch in July, new data shows only one per cent of Australian phone users are using Instagram’s Threads app each day.
- Mark Di Stefano
Apple grapples with turmoil in China days before iPhone 15 launch
The tech titan is contending with a growing ban on iPhone use among government workers, and a contentious new phone from China’s Huawei Technologies is providing homegrown competition.
- Mark Gurman
- Exclusive
- Social media
The influencer with 10m followers and a six-figure waitlist
Anna Paul, a “juggernaut” confounded by her own success, is about to launch her own merchandise line.
- Lauren Sams
August
Are you spending more time on LinkedIn? You’re not alone
The 20-year-old platform is steadily rising to be the world’s preferred social media site, as the stalwarts struggle with competition or new ownership.
- Sarah Frier
ATO seeks gong for bungled TikTok fraud response
For eventually stopping billions in fraudulent refund claims, the tax office is now seeking a medal.
- Myriam Robin
Big tech urges government to go slow on AI rules
Australian businesses already have laws governing AI. What they need is guidance on how to apply those laws, companies such as Apple, Google and Meta say.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Social media
MrBeast is a YouTube megastar. Can he make it in business?
Even creators with hundreds of millions of followers can find their names mean little to older audiences, hampering their chances of building a brand outside social media.
- Elaine Moore
- Exclusive
- Tax avoidance
Unpaid GST surge has helped blow a $50b hole in revenue
A near three-fold explosion in GST debt in the past six years is fuelling a surge in unpaid taxes.
- Neil Chenoweth and Max Mason
