Nine Entertainment
Nine CEO carries Olympic torch as journalists’ strike looms
The industrial action threatens to derail Mike Sneesby’s plans to offer cross-platform coverage of Paris 2024.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
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Nine vows to keep investing in youth media, appoints new Pedestrian boss
Nine has appointed a new chief executive for its youth publishing division, Pedestrian Group, two weeks after it made as much as 40 per cent of its staff redundant.
- by Calum Jaspan
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Broadcast rights
NRL to test broadcast rights waters as streaming loophole appears
The code is set to go to market for its next TV deal this year, seizing on anti-siphoning laws that allow it to sell digital rights to global players such as Amazon.
- by Chris Barrett
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Pedestrian boss to depart as group slashes staff and titles
The youth publisher, owned by Nine, will be split in half and will exit its licensing deals to publish third-party brands including Vice, Refinery29, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Kotaku.
- by Calum Jaspan
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Media & marketing
‘Sobering reality’: What the future for Australia’s media giants looks like
With mass job cuts across Australia’s largest media companies, is there a way out of the advertising downturn, or is it time to face up to a new normal?
- by Calum Jaspan
‘Ready to take on the world’: Former editor Judith Whelan remembered
Judith Whelan was remembered by 500 mourners at the University of Sydney on Friday.
- by Harriet Alexander
‘I’ll be me’: Whateley vows to cover Olympics his way
He might be inspired by veteran caller Bruce McAvaney, but Gerard Whateley is determined to cover the athletics in Paris in his own style.
- by Sam McClure
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Job cuts prompt anger and threat of industrial action at Nine
Executives from Nine’s broadcast, publishing and radio divisions are discussing the extent of cuts with staff as the company seeks $30 million in savings.
- by Calum Jaspan
Jobs on the line as media chiefs unite in stinging rebuke of Meta
The bosses of Nine, News Corp and Seven West Media have called for a potential ban on Facebook if parent company Meta fails to comply with local laws and values.
- by Calum Jaspan
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Bruce Gordon
The man who wears the crown in Nine’s Game of Thrones
Billionaire Bruce Gordon began his career juggling apples at his father’s suburban fruit stand – useful experience for any Nine directorial shuffle.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Media & marketing
Who is Nine’s new chair Catherine West?
Nine’s new chair faces a raft of operational and structural challenges beyond the findings of a looming review into the culture in its embattled television division.
- by Calum Jaspan