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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.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Jenna Price |Daanyal Saeed
February 18, 2025 — 11.50am February 18, 2025 — 11.50am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On the face of it, news of some Daily Telegraph employees trying to goad employees in a pro-Palestinian restaurant into conflict is just another stunt. What’s wrong with this set-up? A man walks into a cafe with a Star of David on his cap.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
inkl.com | Daanyal Saeed |Bernard Keane |Ben Eltham |Catriona Menzies-Pike
Birenbaum, who attended the cafe wearing a cap with the Star of David on it, what appeared to be a Star of David pendant, and a pair of thick wraparound sunglasses, strongly denied the cafe’s version of events that were subsequently posted to social media, as well as the suggestion that a recording was taken using video glasses.
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Feb 16, 2025 | 
inkl.com | Daanyal Saeed |Bernard Keane |Charlie Lewis |Guy Rundle
Unlike a seat at the football, few politicians make a point of playing up their love of local arts and culture. And until last Thursday, the career of artist Khaled Sabsabi wouldn’t have piqued the interest of many politicians or journalists outside western Sydney. But politics and art are not easily separated, as Sabsabi must know.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
inkl.com | Daanyal Saeed |Bernard Keane
The release of Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar, the biopic of infamous Australian fraudster Belle Gibson, reminded us of a small detail Gibson had in common with some of 2024’s biggest communications disasters: the shadowy corporate operators tasked with fixing reputations. In the world of spin, when a corporate scandal requires reputation management, you call a spinner to help salvage the situation with the least damage possible to your brand. And indeed, last year we had no shortage of crises.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
crikey.com.au | Daanyal Saeed |Daany Saeed
Earlier this week, veteran freelance cricket commentator and journalist Peter Lalor was axed from radio station SEN’s cricket coverage midway through the Australian men’s Test tour of Sri Lanka due to his social media posts about Palestine.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
crikey.com.au | Daanyal Saeed |Daany Saeed
As the election draws ever closer, staffer group chats are heating up with talk about how to make money off democracy, according to sources speaking to Crikey. Betting on the federal election is normalised, commonplace and bipartisan, according to sources from all sides of politics speaking on the condition of anonymity. “It is … extremely prevalent in the Nats and the Libs,” one former Coalition staffer said.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
crikey.com.au | Daanyal Saeed |Daany Saeed
With Anthony Albanese still drip-feeding hints about the election date (despite major parties having already swung into campaign mode), it seems bookmakers can’t wait any longer, with Sportsbet opening markets on the next sworn-in government, the type of government formed and several key electorates. When it came to the recent US presidential election, punters were more accurate than pollsters. But if the markets are to be believed, Toto the cavoodle will soon be scampering out of The Lodge.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
crikey.com.au | Daanyal Saeed |Daany Saeed
Foxtel has begun shutting down access to its online streaming services in remote areas of Australia. Users in “very remote” areas, as defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, received a message from Foxtel to advise that their access to services such as Kayo Sports or Binge would not be available after March 3.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
crikey.com.au | Daanyal Saeed |Daany Saeed
Joe Aston is back. Again. After leaving The Australian Financial Review’s Rear Window in October 2023, writing a book on how Qantas sold out the nation, and announcing he’s going independent, this week the AFR announced Aston was returning to the outlet. Aston will be penning a monthly column for the AFR as part of a deal with his former employer, which will see it share in the revenue of Aston’s new business-focused publishing and podcasting venture, Rampart.
