Two really really great opportunities for news breaking journalists to join the AFR newsroom here:

Breaking news reporter:
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NSW reporter:
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Taking out the Bruce Lehrmann trash.

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Absolute 🧨

A second expenses scandal blows open at Seven.

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Well briefed article in News Corp that Kerry Stokes furious by Auerbach revelations and crisis talks among Seven bosses. Start the clock.

I wrote about chequebook journalism and the depraved move to lure an accused rapist by dangling Thai masseuses. The Bruce Lehrmann scandal exposes and ruins reputations.

Tomorrow’s column:

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Australia’s highest paid lawyer secured a baffling contract extension to 2033. Now we know employment specialists in his own firm were among those who objected.

Tomorrow’s column:

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A wild investigation from Primrose Riordan and Zoë Samios about Lawrence Escalante the Australian billionaire you'd likely never heard of - who found a loophole in US sweepstakes laws to build online casinos, getting Americans hooked on gambling.

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my inbox today

Inside Facebook's secret deal with Network Ten, negotiated as the News Media Bargaining Code came in. Onerous requirements for the broadcaster to share some 18,000 videos and threats to tear up the $14 million contract if the tech giant was designated.
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A Swiss bank has accused Macquarie of inflating the value of a poorly performing investment to charge higher fees, and refusing to answer questions about how the company, an Indian education technology platform, was being managed - from Aaron Weinman
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Labor's Stephen Jones will ask companies such as Seven West Media, Nine Entertainment and News Corp to hand over evidence to help build a case against the Silicon Valley multinational, from Ronald Mizen
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Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, says it will no longer pay for news content on its platform, setting up a major stoush with the country’s largest media companies.
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Media Observed this week: Barnaby Joyce to be diagnosed with a sleep disorder on live TV; The feature story former Oz editor Chris Dore is working on (and it drops tomorrow).
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Something happened and it fell to me to make the obvious joke afr.com/rear-window/br…

ANZ has won its $4.9 billion bid for Suncorp’s banking arm on appeal, overturning regulatory concerns about the takeover squashing competition in the banking sector.
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Media Observed this week: The media executives making the NRL Vegas trip for a schmoozefest; John Singleton's SPASM of nostalgia; Allan Gray's note to Southern Cross afr.com/companies/medi…

Been writing a bit about Corrs, where the firm signed the CEO to a five year contract extension, four years early. This one on gender at the male dominated firm.

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Last year’s economic slowdown and interest rate hikes prompted the largest annual fall in Australia’s TV advertising in recorded history, dropping 11 per cent – bigger than the COVID-19 pandemic, global financial crisis and early 2000s dot-com crash. afr.com/companies/medi…