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SMH declares war on ‘vengeful’ News Corp over ‘campaign’ against Kevin Rudd’s US posting

News Corp unleashes tidal wave of criticism over former PM’s barbs about Donald Trump. Plus: Sammy J delights in beating Kyle and Jackie O in Melbourne

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Horsing around: King Charles’ visit gets hearts racing at News Corp but SMH falls short of royal treatment

Daily Telegraph talks up chances Charles will attend the Everest. Plus: ABC splashes cash on redesign

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Sky News’ Sharri Markson tells Benjamin Netanyahu Labor is ‘hostile’ to Israel in ‘confidential’ meeting

Markson says sit-down with Israel’s PM like meeting ‘Winston Churchill during his fight against the Nazis’. Plus: News Corp reprints cartoon found to be offensive

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Enemy at the gate? The West Australian turns its guns on Labor to back the mining giants

The newspaper owned by billionaire Kerry Stokes has not been shy about attacking environmental reforms – but are readers getting the full picture?

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Four Israel-Gaza letter signatories have departed Nine since publisher’s ‘heavy handed’ response

Four staff members who signed an open letter calling for the media to improve its reporting on Gaza have since left Nine’s mastheads. Will more follow?

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Turnbull’s a friend in deed for Macron

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has been building bridges over the troubled waters of Australia and France’s Scott Morrison-shipwrecked relationship, and the News Corp campaign to unseat Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk continues unabated.

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Journalists’ ‘learnings’ tell the real story of these junkets. If only I’d said yes to some of them

Given the fun senior media figures appear to have had on organised tours of Israel, veteran journalist Mike Carlton imagines how things might have been had he taken up similar offers — to Moscow, for example.

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Nine editors double down in ‘tense’ Israel-Palestine letter meeting amid subscription cancellations

Fallout continues over Nine papers’ decision to restrict journalists who signed an open letter calling on improved Israel-Gaza coverage.

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Nine staff accuse editors of ‘hypocrisy’ for sidelining employees who signed Israel-Palestine letter

‘They’ve taken a conversation we were hoping to start in good faith with the industry as a whole and turned Nine (and their own hypocrisy over Israel trips) into part of the story,’ said one journalist.

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The ScoMo-BoJo travelling show

Former PM Scott Morrison is in Israel with former UK PM Boris Johnson ‘to demonstrate solidarity’ with its people, despite acknowledging that he ‘no longer speaks for Australia’, and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is furious that Shore principal John Collier described Lilie James’ killer as ‘an absolute delight’ and ‘not…

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Accentuating the negative

Former Coalition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser has accused the No campaign of using a trope of an ‘angry Aboriginal man’ to incite voters against the Voice, and new drugs offer hope of slowing the decline in dementia patients.

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Sydney Morning Herald apologises for failing ‘dismally’ on coverage of 1838 Myall Creek massacre

Nine Entertainment paper says it ‘essentially campaigned’ for 11 stockmen accused of killing at least 28 Aboriginal people to escape prosecution

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ABC Ombudsman dismisses Nine newspaper complaint about Media Watch Red Alert segment

Host Paul Barry was deemed not to have breached editorial standards because the show was opinion, not news, after SMH and Age series on China

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SMH staff are frustrated to be in the news, again

SMH editor Bevan Shields hit back at critics in a note to subscribers less than a year after being forced to issue an apology for outing a celebrity.

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News Corp again scoops the pool at News Awards as Walkleys reveal nominations

Story nominated for News gong branded ‘national disgrace’ by Indigenous reporters. Plus: SMH all wrapped up in The Everest

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The Peter FitzSimons interview with Jacinta Price that sparked a week-long culture war

A Nine newspapers piece becomes a gift that keeps on giving for the Australian. Plus: small win for ABC archivists

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The Rebel Wilson uproar shows that gossip columns belong in a bygone era

Times have changed, and in a reversal of roles, the rich and famous are often seen as more relatable than the media writing about them

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Bad press: the Rebel Wilson debacle that rocked SMH to its core

How did a short piece in a gossip column lead to tumultuous events that saw the Sydney Morning Herald publish three apologies in as many days?

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Over Xi’s plan for China

Good morning, early birds. China’s President Xi Jinping has given his defence force the power to protect its interests abroad in what could be the legal basis for the Chinese military going into other countries, and the use of restraints in Victorian hospitals reportedly increased by 56% in 2020-2021. It’s…

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Whoopi Goldberg joins international backlash over Sydney Morning Herald’s treatment of Rebel Wilson

Editor Bevan Shields has now accepted full responsibility for the paper’s coverage and apologised for the delay in acknowledging mistakes were made

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Celebrity journalism is dead — let it go

Rebranding gossip as ‘celebrity journalism’ worked for a while, but social media has shifted the balance in favour of the celebs, as the Sydney Morning Herald has discovered.

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Sydney Morning Herald editor tells staff he wouldn’t have ‘outed’ Rebel Wilson if she didn’t respond to the paper’s request

In an internal message sent to the paper’s staff, Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields said a piece on Rebel Wilson’s relationship would only have gone to print if she answered their questions.

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On a power trip

Good morning, early birds. Australia’s east coast is facing an energy crisis, while NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is fighting for stamp duty to get the boot. It’s the news you need to know, with Amber Schultz.

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Rebel Wilson breaks silence over newspaper 'outing' claims prior to going public with new partner

Rebel Wilson announced her relationship with Ramona Agruma last week and it has since been revealed a newspaper considered running an expose before they went public

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‘So gross’: The world reacts to Sydney Morning Herald ‘outing’ Rebel Wilson

The Sydney Morning Herald has apologised to Rebel Wilson over its handling of her new relationship and sexuality, but is it enough?

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