Digital business

Lessons learned as Nine's cyber-attack takes media 'back to 1986'

Mar 31, 2021 at 06:56 pm by Staff

Newsmedia and security industry experts were still studying what happened when a cyber attack hit Nine Entertainment, as the Australian broadcast and media giant struggled to.... Read More

Ex-CNN anchor to 'drive storytelling and culture'

Mar 30, 2021 at 10:10 pm by Staff

Black media advocates are celebrating the appointment of former CNN journalist Isha Sesay as chief executive of OkayMedia. The publisher - which says it is "dedicated to uplif.... Read More

A year after print cuts, News backs tags and footy to slow churn

Mar 30, 2021 at 12:17 am by Staff

Enhanced topic and geo-tagging technology on News Corp's Australian websites is part of a push to sustain subscriptions and arrest churn a year after the publisher began shutt.... Read More

Publishers' group teams for ad tech, sign-ins

Mar 30, 2021 at 12:02 am by Staff

Local Media Consortium, a members' group of "locally focussed" North American news media, TV and radio companies, is working to create an advertising network and single-sign-o.... Read More

News adds digital rival and lucrative book backlist

Mar 29, 2021 at 11:36 pm by Staff

News Corp has announced two purchases - of a financial daily and a book publisher. The 'books and media' segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will be operated by subsidiary Ha.... Read More