Daany Saeed

Media Reporter at Crikey

media reporter @crikey_news. bat 8, don’t bowl, views mine. yarn? [email protected], DMs open. Over on the other place at https://t.co/tSh2ITWqVf

Articles

The mushroom trial has become a media circus, so Crikey went to watch

5 days ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

The sleepy Latrobe Valley town of Morwell is having quite the moment. Journalists, podcasters and an award-winning author or two have descended on the Victorian town for the mushroom murder trial of Leongatha woman Erin Patterson. The trial has garnered worldwide attention for the unusual allegations that sit before a locally drawn jury and Supreme Court Judge Christopher Beale.
ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

The ABC appears to have taken down an interview with the president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), Nasser Mashni, about the Israel-Gaza conflict. Mashni, a regular on the ABC, was interviewed by afternoon TV anchor Kathryn Robinson at around 3.30pm on Monday, and was asked about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s recent remarks about Israel’s actions.
Australian Associated Press CEO Lisa Davies resigns

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

Australian Associated Press CEO Lisa Davies has resigned, according to an internal staff memo seen by Crikey. The memo to staff, released on Tuesday, written by AAP chair Gail Hambly, said that Davies’ last day in the business will be Friday June 6.
How often does News Corp actually win in court?

1 week ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

Sky News Australia is in the courts at the moment against Sydney lawyer Adam Houda, who claims that a January 2024 episode of The Bolt Report and an accompanying article defamed him by portraying him as a “Jew hater”. Houda will also argue that Sky News’ program carried the defamatory imputation, among seven others, that he “hates Jews to a shocking extent”.
Everything is woke, ads in the wrong spots, and Barry echoes Crikey

2 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

Woke parking: Here at Crikey, we do our best to stay across the usage of the incredibly versatile label “woke”. Our comrades at News Corp have labelled all manner of things woke, and while this latest example doesn’t come from the dungeons of Holt St, it is one of our personal favourites of late. Turns out, parking regulations near Caulfield Grammar in Melbourne’s south-east are also woke.
Big political media reshuffles at News Corp, Nine and the ABC

2 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

ABC Sydney Mornings executive producer Alice Workman is headed to The Daily Telegraph, returning to Holt St where she spent nearly four years as a political reporter and columnist for The Australian. Workman will return to News Corp’s flagship tabloid masthead as chief of staff, where she will be supported by current deputy Jake McCallum. She replaces Zac McLean, who has been promoted to the tabloid’s head of news among a suite of other changes.
Big political media reshuffles at News Corp, Nine and the ABC

2 weeks ago | media.info | Daanyal Saeed |Daany Saeed

ABC Sydney Mornings executive producer Alice Workman is headed to The Daily Telegraph, returning to Holt St where she spent nearly four years as a political reporter and columnist for The Australian. Workman will return to News Corp’s flagship tabloid masthead as chief of staff, where she will be supported by current deputy Jake McCallum. She replaces Zac McLean, who has been promoted to the tabloid’s head of news among a suite of other changes.
Mushroom madness, Kenny's straw-grasp, and a Rich Lister's rent rallying cry

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

Mushroom madness: The trial of Erin Patterson, the woman accused of killing three of her family members by lacing a beef wellington with poisonous mushrooms, is underway in Victoria. Three people dead, a mother pleading not guilty — it’s serious stuff. Luckily, everyone is being really calm and respectful about it, including the ABC, which is spruiking a podcast called Mushroom Case Daily, advertised with a picture of the accused’s face inside a mushroom.
'I’m happy to lose': Hannah Ferguson on why she’s running for the Senate

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

Hannah Ferguson, founder of Cheek Media Co, addressed the National Press Club this week, speaking on the role of new media in the recent election cycle and how it would continue to influence the future of Australian politics.
'Pretend Jew sellout': Ex-Footy Show producer unleashes tirade of online abuse

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Daany Saeed

A notorious sports personality has been abusing members of the AFL media online for 18 months over the Israel-Gaza conflict, including calling a Jewish producer a “pretend Jew sellout”. Ralph Horowitz, one of the original producers of Nine’s The Footy Show in the early 1990s and now a self-employed horse racing blogger, posted more than 100 times about other media figures, including the likes of ABC sports reporter Marnie Vinall and AFL digital news producer Sophie Welsh.