Zempilas prepares 6PR exit
By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Friday, 16th October 2020 at 1:38pmBasil Zempilas is hanging up his breakfast headset at 6PR.
He told co-host Steve Mills that he will not renew his Nine Radio contract for 2021 because of challenges working for the network while balancing his sports presenter commitments to Seven.
Mills and Zempilas have been on-air since 2017, and Nine Radio is already studying prospect replacements for Zempilas.
"I've had an unbelievable time at 6PR and have been very proud of our successes and my partnership with Steve Mills. I will miss being a part of 6PR Breakfast very much," said Zempilas.
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Veress departs Pedestrian, looks to new Blunt role + Streaming/Content Creation
By Will McLennan in Media News on Tuesday, 15th July 2025 at 11:47am
Benjamin Veress hopes to explore his passions much more after departing as Native Content Writer at Pedestrian TV earlier this month.
However, after just one week off, Veress is already back at the keyboard, joining Blunt Magazine as a freelance news writer last Thursday.
Veress told Influencing, “I've been in the same role for under three years and decided it was time to move on…After so much change and being in the native content role for so long, I decided I want to take a step back, pursue other opportunities, and focus more on my passions for writing, too.
“I stream on the side, I do content creation on the side, and I also love doing that.”
Veress added the decision to change roles was “a culmination of things” and that he hopes to focus on “music, gaming, and tech news” going forward.
The opportunity to write for Blunt Magazine came from an informal discussion with his former Pedestrian colleague and now editor of Blunt Magazine, Emily Spindler.
“I
THE BRIEF: Chalmers offensive gets underway
By Matt Buchanan in Media News on Tuesday, 15th July 2025 at 7:30am
The Treasurer might not be promising a new tax—but the sound of economic reform drums is growing louder. The AFR’s Ronald Mizen reports that the Commonwealth Bank has thrown a red flag into Jim Chalmers’ roundtable with a blunt submission: forget about corporate tax cuts, target wealth instead, and review the GST.
A “frank submission” indeed. Most notably, the CBA directly contradicts the Business Council of Australia—of which it's a member—by arguing company tax cuts should not be the priority. That chorus gets louder in The Australian, where Matthew Cranston and Greg Brown write that Chalmers is now “open” to new taxes and more cuts to spending. Their story follows the accidental release of Treasury advice warning that without these changes, the budget isn’t sustainable.
And then there’s Samantha Maiden’s report in The Daily Telegraph, which goes full-facepalm: secret Treasury advice urging the government to raise taxes was accidentally sent to a jo
Bajarbattu launches four new digital channels
By Staff writer in Media News on Monday, 14th July 2025 at 8:49pm
Following the success of LegaXy, a sports and entertainment venture, the founding team has expanded into the digital content arena with the launch of Bajarbattu Media.
This next-generation media company is focused on creating original, engaging content across a variety of genres.
Bajarbattu Media is positioned as a modern infotainment hub, combining impactful storytelling with innovative digital formats to captivate, inform, and entertain Indian audiences.
Blame-games, premature conclusions over the AI-171 crash report could only derail passenger safety
By Pradeep Damodaran, Pragadish Kirubakaran and Neeraja Gopalakrishnan in Media News on Monday, 14th July 2025 at 3:17pm
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The Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA) has slammed the “reckless and unfounded insinuation of pilot suicide” that has been doing the rounds since the report was made public on Saturday. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB) report stated that both fuel switches on the Boeing 787 transitioned from “run” to “cut-off” three seconds after it took off from the runway, cutting off fuel supply to the engines. Soon after the report’s release, pilots and aviation experts, in interviews and posts on social media, claimed one of the pilots had knowingly cut off the fuel supply switch.
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The Airline Pilots’ Association of India has also stated that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB) preliminary report on the Air India 171 crash led to the promoting of a “presumption of pilot guilt” even before the probe was complete, reported
Journalists attacked at Vaiko’s Sattur event triggering media backlash
By Pragadish Kirubakaran in Media News on Monday, 14th July 2025 at 2:58pm
By all accounts, it should have been a routine political event. Speeches, applause, dinner. But what unfolded at Vaiko’s Sattur meeting on July 9 was a full-on crash course in how not to treat journalists and how quickly insecurity can spiral into violence.
According to Tamil Janam TV reporter Jayaram, who was on the ground, the evening took a turn after Durai Vaiko (Vaiko’s son and rising political face) delivered his speech and left for his 8 PM flight. Naturally, most of the crowd followed suit. Some left, others rushed for selfies. What remained was a hall of scattered chairs and a visibly rattled Vaiko Sr., who lashed out on the mic to get people to sit back down.
From that point, things got uncomfortable and then ugly.
Journalists, including those from Tamil Janam TV, Polimer TV, News7 Tamil and Thanthi TV, continued covering the event. Some shot footage of empty chairs, a scene any honest reporter would capture. But instead of taking the optics in stride or issuing a
Network 10 signs deal with Sky News to continue broadcasting free-to-air
By Staffwriter in Media News on Monday, 14th July 2025 at 2:16pm
Beverley McGarvey, President Network 10 and Paul Whittaker, Sky News Austrtalia CEO.
The deal unveiled today will see a new multi-year distribution agreement with Sky News Australia to continue broadcasting free-to-air channel Sky News Regional in existing regional markets across New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland.
In addition, the Network 10 sales team will commercially represent all advertising inventory for this regional free-to-air channel.
Beverley McGarvey, President Network 10, Head of Streaming and Regional Lead Paramount Australia & New Zealand, said: “We’re pleased to have reached a new agreement with Sky News Australia that maintains the existing selection of channels for regional audiences. This deal also leverages the expertise of our unified national sales team, broadens our advertising inventory and national market offering, giving our clients and partners unparalleled access to key regional audiences.”
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THE BRIEF: China/US conflict not so Albaneasy
By Matt Buchanan in Media News on Monday, 14th July 2025 at 8:23am
ALBANEASY DOES IT/FROM CHINA WITH LOVE
So, Albanese is in China and still not saying the quiet part out loud: what Australia would actually do in the event of a US-China conflict over Taiwan. It’s not for lack of asking. Clare Armstrong (across The Daily Telegraph, The Advertiser, The Courier-Mail, and The Herald Sun) captures the PM’s ongoing rhetorical sidestep as pressure from Washington intensifies. And Paul Sakkal and Michael Koziol in the Age and SMH report that the PM backed the AUKUS agreement to deliver Australia nuclear-powered subs, and quoted the government boilerplate: “The $368million partnership with the US and the UK was designed to promote peace and security in our region.”
There were stronger takes, however. The AFR’s Andrew Tillett and Ronald Mizen describe Albanese as caught in a diplomatic bind, with trade optics in Shanghai clashing against US expectations. The overall tone from mastheads is calm-but-concerned, with The Australian’s Ben Packham
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