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Calum Jaspan

Calum Jaspan

Calum Jaspan is a media writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Melbourne. Reach him securely on Signal @calumjaspan.10

Seven West veteran Rohan Lund joined the merged Southern Cross/Seven West as chief executive in May this year.

Seven’s owner announces massive job cuts as TV earnings drop

As many as 300 staff will be axed after advertising revenue declines proved to be worse than expected.

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Former NRMA chief executive Rohan Lund joined as chief executive in May.

Up to 200 staff to go as Seven’s owner swings the axe

Seven Network staff are bracing for mass job cuts, which are expected to amount to as many as 200 redundancies across the company.

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Justin Stevens (background) and Hugh Marks at an estimates hearing in December.

ABC News boss unaware he was being replaced, managing director says

Hugh Marks said that Justin Stevens resigned, but his exit was “inevitable” after the pair disagreed on the right direction for Australia’s largest newsroom.

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Peter V’landys at Monday’s press conference.

Peter V’landys walks a tightrope chasing his $4b NRL broadcast dream

The boss of the NRL has long set his sights on surpassing the AFL’s seven-year $4.5 billion deal struck in 2022. Opinion is split on whether he can achieve that magic number.

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The ABC has improved its pay offer just days after a 24-hour strike.

New Four Corners boss begins shake-up at current affairs flagship

Only a few months into the role, the new boss of Four Corners plans to change editorial processes at the longest-running show on Australian television.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “personally authorised and actively encouraged the infringement”, the lawsuit alleges.

Labor holds firm on plan to make tech giants pay for news as Meta attacks

The government is pressing ahead with its plan to make tech giants fund journalism, shrugging off Meta’s claim it amounts to a “discriminatory tax”.

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Foreign Correspondent and mockumentary writer Simon Robinson.

He has no TV experience and is little known in Australia. The ABC just handed him its biggest news job

The new boss of ABC News is an Aussie, but he’s been living and working outside the country since the 20th century.

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Simon Robinson, expected to be the ABC’s next news boss.

Reuters executive set to be new ABC News boss

Simon Robinson, an Australian currently based in London, has been chosen to lead ABC News, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter.

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Mahmood Fazal reporting for the ABC’s Four Corners program.

Four Corners reporter sacked over external podcast

The reporter’s appearances on a controversial crime podcast triggered a lengthy internal investigation at the ABC.

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Gina Rinehart and an artist’s impression of Hancock Prospecting’s $270 million West Perth headquarters.

Gina Rinehart emerges as money behind Bruce McWilliam’s stake in Seven owner

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has financed most of the former Kerry Stokes ally’s near-10 per cent stake in Southern Cross Media, ASX documents shows.

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