overview
ABC, SBS, BBC
Advance
Annenberg
AOL
APN
Astors
Aust Networks
Beaverbrook
Bertelsmann
Black
Cox
Disney
DMG
Elsevier
Fairfax
Financial Press
Fleet Street
Hearst
Liberty
Maxwell
News & Murdoch
New Yorker
NY Times
Packer
Sony
Thomson
Time Warner
Tribune
US Networks
Viacom
Vivendi
W Post
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Fairfax
The main works
are Gavin Souter's two studies of the Sydney Morning
Herald (SMH)
group - Company of Heralds and Heralds &
Angels (Melbourne, Melbourne Uni Press 81 and 1991) .
The Fairfax dynasty's disintegration is portrayed in James
Fairfax's elegaic My Regards To Broadway (Sydney,
Imprint 92), The Man Who Couldn't Wait: Warwick
Fairfax's Folly & the Bankers Who Backed Him (Port
Melbourne, Heinemann 91) by V J Carroll and Operation
Dynasty (Elwood, Greenhouse 89) by Trevor Sykes.
A useful point of reference is Marie Brenner's House of
Dreams (London, Michael Joseph 89) on meltdown, US
style.
Paul Chadwick's Media Mates: Carving Up Australia's
Media (Macmillan, South Melbourne 89) has retained its
value as an introduction to the dynamics of media
regulation and concentration in Australia.
Trevor Barr's thoughtful Newmedia.com.au: The Changing
Face of Australia's Media and Communications (St
Leonards, Allen & Unwin 00) is essential reading in
understanding the interaction between politicians,
bureaucrats, business, consumers and technology. Another
perspective is provided by AFR journalist Mark
Westfield's blow by blow account in The Gatekeepers:
The Global Media Battle to control Australia's Pay TV
(Annandale, Pluto Press 00).
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