Clive Palmer considering media tilt

Mining magnate Clive Palmer says he will consider a tilt at media ownership like his billionaire counterpart Gina Rinehart who has become Fairfax Media's biggest single shareholder.

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Optus wins landmark web broadcast rights case

Lucy Battersby, Leonie Lamont Optus has won a landmark court case which shatters Telstra’s stranglehold over internet sports broadcasting and poses an immediate threat to the AFL's recent broadcast rights deals.

TV Now hangs in balance

Lucy Battersby Decision on Optus' controversial internet television service to be delivered this week.

Mosley v Google: battle to remove pages

Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former motorsport boss Max Mosley's sex life from its search results index, Britain's Leveson Inquiry on press standards has heard.

Celebrity, scandal and journalism merge at French HuffPo launch

Celebrity, scandal and new media converged in Paris as shamed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife returned to the spotlight to launch Le Huffington Post, a French take on the US news website.

List of entitlements in phone hacking case

Details of settlements to 18 celebrities and politicians over the News of the World phone hacking scandal were announced at the High Court in London. A further 19 people have also settled.

News to pay dozens of hacking victims

Rupert Murdoch's media empire has apologised and agreed to cash payouts to 37 people - including a movie star, a football player, a top British politician and the son of a serial killer - who were harassed and phone-hacked by his tabloid press.

Kyle costs station $10m as another sponsor quits

Clare Kermond The Austereo group is toughing out the latest blow to its Kyle and Jackie O show, with big name sponsor Jenny Craig quitting the show after one day.

Murdoch 'angry' over Elton John settlement

News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch took a "hands on approach" to his UK newspapers, The Sun tabloid's former editor tells an inquiry into press ethics.