Seven West Media
Analysis
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
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Gina Rinehart receives Cambodia’s highest honour from country’s king
The billionaire mining magnate has won a new foreign admirer in the South-East Asian nation’s monarch, Norodom Sihamoni.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
7News YouTube channel hacked, broadcasts AI Elon Musk crypto scam
Subscribers to 7News’ YouTube channel have been shown a live-streamed AI-generated Elon Musk cryptocurrency scam.
- by Calum Jaspan and David Swan
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Media & marketing
Seven loses three key executives amid mass redundancies
The departure of three senior staff, including the chief revenue officer Kurt Burnette, represents a major overhaul of Seven West’s operations, just two months into new boss Jeff Howard’s tenure.
- by Calum Jaspan
Exclusive
Media & marketing
Axe swings at Seven West Media with 150 jobs to go
Redundancies come as the Kerry Stokes-controlled media company braces for the end of a lucrative commercial deal with Facebook and Instagram’s owner Meta.
- 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
Senior Seven journalist Robert Ovadia sacked following investigation into behaviour
One of Seven’s most-prominent journalists has been dismissed following an investigation into alleged inappropriate behaviour.
- by Calum Jaspan
‘I made it all up’: Shocking questions over evidence in case against Channel Seven contestants
Two people involved in the case against two Channel Seven TV contestants who face charges of torture and rape have claimed they made up evidence.
- by Cloe Read
Editorial
Media & marketing
Peter Costello had to go. And thank goodness he has
It was simply untenable for the chair of a media company to seemingly shove a reporter to the ground, laugh, walk off and carry on in the boardroom as if nothing had happened.
- The Herald's View
Senior Seven journalist on leave amid investigation into ‘inappropriate behaviour’
Channel 7 senior journalist and presenter Robert Ovadia is on leave from the network as it looks into an allegation of inappropriate behaviour by him towards a woman.
- by Calum Jaspan
Defence conference brings Labor’s old enemies together again
Old foes from Labor’s internal power struggles Kevin Rudd and Stephen Smith will join former PM Malcolm Turnbull at defence think tank’s conference next month.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell