58-573: The Rolling Stone Australia Awards are awarded annually in January or February by the Australian edition of Rolling Stone magazine for outstanding contributions to popular culture in the previous year. The awards initially commenced in 2010 and ran until 2015, before being relaunched in March 2021. The categories have changed each year. The criteria for the 2010 awards were as per below: The categories for
116-593: A finance newsroom . It has consistently been well received by the journalism sector as one of the most high-quality newsrooms across Australia. Since the 2000s, the AFR has launched BOSS (magazine for business leadership and strategy) and the Sophisticated Traveller magazine. In 2019, the Australian Financial Review recorded double-digit subscriber growth, as it continued to market its newspaper as
174-453: A few local articles supplementing the major features from the parent magazine. In August 1972 Frazer launched an Australian counter-culture magazine The Digger which was published fortnightly, then monthly, and it was The Digger , and not the local edition Rolling Stone , that fostered a team of star young writers like Colin Talbot, Helen Garner, Garrie Hutchinson and Robert Adamson, who rivalled
232-467: A new look and size. Year after year, Rolling Stone Australia has made me proud. They have executed the Rolling Stone mission with style, intelligence and energy. My hat is off to everyone who has contributed to this success over the years and I look forward to even greater years to come. In 2008 the magazine averaged sales of 27,051 copies a month, down from 29,372 the year before and about 40,000 at
290-447: A paywall was done because the newspaper company thought it could further monetise its niche business audience who could afford it. Following this change, the AFR continued to adjust the pricing of its subscription due to low subscriber growth. In 2011, it newly introduced a freemium paywall in which only a small portion of articles were free. It has been noted that the AFR's website locks approximately 86% of its online content behind
348-503: A paywall, higher than its closest competitor the National Business Review . This was aimed at increasing its digital readership which in 2011 amounted to 6,000 subscribers. In addition, it was later determined that the AFR's failures in attracting online subscribers was due to its paywall being too expensive. Its 2012 price of $ 59 AUD was notably higher than other international mastheads, including The New York Times which
406-609: A star contributor alongside the copy Creswell himself generated, the magazine was now brimming with well-written local features and news stories, and incisive reviews. In 1987, owners Paul Gardiner and Jane Maitheson pulled out of the business amid mounting debts and American indifference, and the licence to publish Rolling Stone in Australia was picked up by Creswell leading a consortium he’d assembled with an old school friend, Philip Keir, and Keir's wife Lesa-Belle Furhagen. Shifting headquarters back to Sydney city, to Surry Hills right in
464-423: A supplementary weekend paper, which was launched in 1995. In that same year, the AFR website was also released, which helped to expand its readership base across all media. The AFR , along with most of Fairfax Media , was purchased by Nine Entertainment in 2018. The Australian Financial Review newspaper started as a weekly publication in 1951, published by John Fairfax & Sons . The paper's main objective
522-434: Is published in tabloid format six times a week, whilst providing 24/7 online coverage through its website. In November 2019, the AFR reached 2.647 million Australians through both print and digital mediums (Mumbrella). The Australian Financial Review started as a print-only weekly newspaper in 1951, before changing to a bi-weekly in 1961, and a daily newspaper in 1963. The paper now publishes multiple magazines and
580-552: The AB demographic . In 1995, Fairfax launched the Australian Financial Review Magazine in response to its growing readership across a wide-ranging audience. The magazine was published to cover topics other than business including leisure , politics , travel , sports , fashion , and other peripheral topics. In December 2019, the magazine recorded an average issue readership of 326,000. Since its launch in 1995,
638-488: The AFR , now being published annually in the Australian Financial Review Magazine and on the afr.com . Along with the names of the richest people, the list explicates the person or family's net worth and provides a short summary on the business activities and sector they are engaged in. The valuations are conducted by utilising a mix of publicly available information and private consultations. In 2019,
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#1732859198586696-503: The AFR Magazine has won the 'Best Newspaper Inserted Magazine' (2013-2019), 'Newspaper Inserted Brand of the Year' (2019) and Mumbrella's 'Special Issue of the Year' (2019). The magazine's founding was followed by the launch of the AFR 's website in the same year, which started as a free online source of financial news. In 1997, the AFR launched its Weekend Edition which extended
754-586: The Financial Review in Tasmania, with copies to instead be flown in from Melbourne on the following day. The decision was subsequently reversed. In May 2024, printed editions of the Financial Review were discontinued in Western Australia, which Nine attributed to an increase in printing costs by its competitor Seven West Media, the owners of the only suitable printing press in Western Australia. Within
812-417: The "Core" material deserved a stand-alone publication for older readers, and on 1 May 1970, Go-Set Publications launched the tabloid Revolution , co-edited by Frazer and Jon Hawkes. From its fourth issue onward Revolution included a supplement of Rolling Stone pages under an agreement Frazer made with its Californian owner and publisher Jann Wenner . In August 1971 Revolution became High Times (before
870-534: The ' Cyprus Confidential ' report on the financial network which supports the regime of Vladimir Putin , mostly with connections to Cyprus, and showed Cyprus to have strong links with high-up figures in the Kremlin, some of whom have been sanctioned. Government officials including Cyprus president Nikos Christodoulides and European lawmakers began responding to the investigation's findings in less than 24 hours, calling for reforms and launching probes. AFR has won
928-470: The 1990s, the AFR 's reporting focus steered more towards business investigative journalism, scrutinising big corporations, government power and corruption. This was viewed as the AFR making reparations for its lack of scrutiny over the corporate sector in the lead-up to the stock market crash. One major factor that allowed the AFR to undertake deep corporate investigations was that it did not need advertising revenue to stay afloat – its cover price
986-487: The 2021 were as below: A list of awards ceremony dates and locations are listed below. In inaugural awards took place on 20 January 2010, at Oxford Art Factory, Sydney. The second Rolling Stone Australia Awards took place on 25 January 2011. The third Rolling Stone Australia Awards took place on 25 January 2012 The fourth Rolling Stone Australia Awards took place on 16 January 2013, at Sydney's Beach Road Hotel in Bondi . It
1044-536: The AFR's daily newspaper, regularly scheduled sections include: Across the AFR group, the team does not only publish newspapers. Its range of operations is listed below: The Financial Review Rich List aims to compile an annual ranking of the wealthiest Australian citizens. The list was first published in the BRW Magazine in 1984. Since its beginnings, the compilation of the list and its publishing have been taken over by
1102-494: The American Rolling Stone ’s iconoclastic reputation for New Journalism. The first edition [of Rolling Stone ] I saw was just so quirky. It was basically a tabloid format, A3-sized, folded so that it looked the size of an A4 page. It was on newsprint and because it was folded you could have the huge image on the front cover. It was very simple, it was just the essence of hipness In 1975, before Frazer left Australia for
1160-567: The American edition. In addition to relying on Clinton Walker for major features and acerbic reviews, Creswell nurtured new young writers like O’Donnell and John Birmingham , who won Rolling Stone ’s campus writing contest, and had it not been for its great weakness, its Sydney-centricity – its inability to get good consistent coverage on the ground in Melbourne – the magazine would undoubtedly have been Australia's journal of record for music culture. By
1218-654: The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, and the Journalists' union warned the ACCC that the mega-cap takeover would threaten the editorial independence of Fairfax Media's portfolio newspaper companies. Former prime minister Paul Keating also voiced his criticisms labelling the ACCC's decision as "appalling", considering that a more concentrated media industry would reduce coverage of city-specific political issues. In October 2022, Nine announced that it would discontinue printing
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#17328591985861276-635: The US magazine of that name), which featured Australian underground cartoons curated by co-editors Pat Woolley and Macy McFarland. Frazer left Go-Set and High Times early in 1972 and, with his business partner Geoff Watson, launched the Australian Rolling Stone as a fully fledged magazine, five years after the flagship started in the United States. Rolling Stone Australia was published fortnightly, devoted to music, politics, and popular culture, with
1334-407: The United States, he closed down The Digger and sold the local Rolling Stone licence to a group of journalists led by former Financial Review writer Paul Gardiner, with Jane Mathieson and Paul Comrie Thomson. One thing this meant, perhaps most crucially, was that the magazine moved base from Melbourne to Sydney. The first Australian act on the cover was Skyhooks in 1976, who reportedly hated
1392-697: The basement of the Gardiners’ home in Neutral Bay, and even as it continued to tinker, in the mid-80s, with its format, experimenting with design styles, colour and paperstock – and experimenting with a great many different contributors – it was finally starting to look like a viable competitor to RAM . In 1985, Rolling Stone published The Big Australian Rock Book , a sort of A-Z survey of then-Australian music, edited by Ed St.John and written largely by him, Bruce Elder, Toby Creswell, Clinton Walker and Andrea Jones. The final transformation began in 1986, when Toby Creswell
1450-531: The ceremony taking place on 26 March 2024. Rolling Stone Australia Rolling Stone Australia is the Australian edition of the United States' Rolling Stone magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture, published monthly. The Australian version of Rolling Stone was initially published in 1970 as a supplement in Revolution magazine published by Monash University student Phillip Frazer . It
1508-409: The controversial 2013 tax debate regarding taxes for "extraordinary" profits generated by mining companies, major mastheads from regions with high mining interests had almost fourfold the number of negative articles compared to positive articles. The Australian , the biggest national daily, had a large number of both positive and negative articles, but had a limited number of neutral articles. Out of all
1566-418: The cover again until Men at Work in 1983 – and that was a relayed American story. The magazine also lacked the immediacy and the team of quality contributors that made its rival RAM so much more successful in terms of relevance and quality. Certainly in no way in this phase, in the late 70s, did it develop a cast of writers the way The Digger had only a few years earlier, with only Bruce Elder staying on for
1624-511: The cut-off for making the Rich List was $ 472m AUD. In 2020, the cut-off was raised to $ 540m AUD. During 1975 to 1983, when The Australian widely articulated its political stance on conservative liberalism , it had been noted that the AFR also promoted neo-liberalism through its news coverage and editorials, exerting influence on the business sphere of Australia and its elitist readership base. The newspaper has also been labelled as one of
1682-604: The daily mastheads, the AFR published the most articles surrounding the tax debate and also the most number of neutral articles. In November 2023, the AFR joined with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , Paper Trail Media [ de ] and 69 media partners including Distributed Denial of Secrets and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and more than 270 journalists in 55 countries and territories to produce
1740-551: The deal was made, it was reported that Fairfax's portfolio newspapers, including the AFR , would maintain independence from Nine's media groups. As part of the proposed deal, Hugh Marks took over corporate control of the combined group with Fairfax CEO, Greg Hywood , stepping down. The combined entity in 2018 was forecasted to have approximately 6,000 employees (inclusive of all the duplicate roles made redundant), major resources across all media types including print, TV, radio and online; and $ 3 billion in revenue. The proposed merger
1798-405: The driver of Australian business-people's success and ambitions. In 2020, due to the newspaper company's expansion efforts across different readership bases, the AFR reached 2.647m Australians a month. The AFR first introduced its paywall in 2006, charging online users to view its articles – a payment model that had not yet been utilised by any other Australian newspaper firm. The switch to
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1856-508: The early 90s, however, with Next Media now having bought a building of its own in southern-Sydney suburb Redfern, tensions were brewing between Phil Keir and both his wife Lesa-Belle Furhagen and Toby Creswell. The eventual result was that September 1992, saw a traumatic split, in which Creswell was escorted off the premises by security, Keir took control of the company, and Creswell and Furhagen went off together to form Terraplane Press, which launched Juice magazine. Juice aimed itself, with
1914-523: The lead up to the merger, there were a few roadblocks. In 2016, the proposed merger was not feasible due to government legislation surrounding media ownership. In addition, Nine Entertainment's board believed that its share price was undervalued and thus wanted to delay any acquisition until its fair value had been reflected. Amongst the delays in talks between the two parties, Fairfax had other suitors including private equity groups TPG Capital and Hellman & Friedman , which ended up walking away from
1972-710: The local licences for UK labels Rough Trade and Factory Records, as well as signing local acts (such as Pel Mel) – meaning that in addition to Rolling Stone the office was now putting out albums by Joy Division and Cabaret Voltaire. At the same time Paul Comrie-Thompson became a sort of advisor if not manager to Chris Bailey and his band the Saints . A handful of younger writers like Ed St.John and occasional RAM contributors Toby Creswell and Clinton Walker too started freelancing for Rolling Stone and invigorating its pages. The magazine shifted from its old office in North Sydney to
2030-499: The long haul, and P.D. Jack coming and going. As the booms in local pub rock and punk rock started to take off, Rolling Stone seemed increasingly irrelevant, an imported acolyte of all things West Coast with precious little acknowledgement of the blossoming Australian scene around it. The real mark of the magazine's change came in 1980, when it shifted from a fortnightly to a monthly. Paul Gardiner partnered with art director Andrew Penhallow and founded GAP Records, which quickly acquired
2088-511: The magazine by the late 1990s, it entered into something of a phase in the wilderness, with a succession of editors and owners compromising its content and integrity in the face of a shifting pop-cultural landscape, including not least of all the rise of the internet. In 2008 Next Media Pty Ltd was purchased by Worseley Media , in a deal that saw ACP Magazines acquire Rolling Stone magazine in exchange for ACP titles Tracks and Waves . A few months later, ACP relaunched Rolling Stone , with
2146-470: The magazine enjoyed a boost in stability and success, and certainly it would outlive Juice , which despite its efforts for a decade, went down when the dot.com bubble burst in 2003. Australian Rolling Stone celebrated its 25th year with a special collector's edition in May 1998, and at that time the publishers claimed the current circulation was around 40,000. After Bail and Scatena (and Clinton Walker) had left
2204-569: The middle of a booming inner-city music circuit, and taking on staff that included most notably designer/writer David Messer, Rolling Stone was then left, after the demise of RAM in 1989, with the Australian music magazine market almost entirely to itself. In the face of competition only from the now-widespread, regionalised free street press with its preponderance of advertorial, and now with John O’Donnell as Creswell's Assistant Editor and going glossy full colour throughout, Rolling Stone entered its peak period, with its own flavor quite distinct from
2262-513: The paper's publications into the weekend, with an explicit focus of targeting the growing readership base by providing news articles outside of the traditional finance setting. In 2016, the AFR launched mobile and iPad compatible applications to provide its digital subscribers more accessibility to its news platform. This was aimed at allowing cross-platform accessibility without having to download two separate applications across different device platforms. The application carries similar features to
2320-417: The photo, but it did mark a broadening recognition of local acts in the magazine. Together Gardiner, Mathieson and Comrie-Thompson built Rolling Stone Australia up as a major player in terms of circulation, shifting about 35,000 copies each fortnight. The magazine, however, lacked consistent local content. The Skyhooks cover was the exception rather than the rule, and an Australian band would not re-appear on
2378-546: The previous year. They initially ran from 2009 to 2015 and have been relaunched as of March 2021. The Australian Financial Review The Australian Financial Review ( AFR ) is an Australian business-focused, compact daily newspaper covering the current business and economic affairs of Australia and the world. The newspaper is based in Sydney , New South Wales, Australia; owned by Nine Entertainment and has been published continuously since its founding in 1951. The AFR
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2436-418: The propagators of radical liberalism during the 1970s–80s, shaping the policy debate surrounding market deregulation at that time. This was in line with the overarching political stance of all Fairfax Holdings owned newspapers, including The Sydney Morning Herald , which in the 1970s was also right-leaning in its political views. In the wake of the 1987 stock market crash , the Australian news media sector
2494-456: The rise of grunge in the 90s, at a slightly younger demographic than Rolling Stone , but Rolling Stone , with Kathy Bail now installed as editor, continued to offer quality coverage of Australian and global music, politics, and popular culture. Freelancer Clinton Walker was the only writer to carry over from the old regime to this new one (while he also contributed to Juice at the same time!), and when Dino Scatena came in on staff to assist Bail,
2552-424: The table. In 2018, Nine Entertainment's board re-entered into talks with Fairfax of a potential merger after its share price had jumped following an upbeat earnings report. The proposed structure of the takeover was 0.3627 Nine shares plus $ 0.025 AUD per Fairfax share, composing a cash plus scrip deal. This represented a 21.9% takeover premium to Fairfax's last close, and valued Fairfax at $ 2313.8mm AUD. Once
2610-588: The time of its 30th anniversary issue six years previous. Its average readership in March 2008 was 301,000, compared with 296,000 a year earlier; the readership had peaked in December 1994 at 392,000. ACP was acquired by Bauer Media Group in 2012 and in 2013, the company Paper Riot, headed by Matt Coyte, bought the Rolling Stone franchise from Bauer. Under Coyte's editorship, and with the launch of its own independent website in 2014, Rolling Stone started to claw back some of its former relevance and credibility, but it
2668-529: The website including sections such as: Street Talk and Rear Window. The product management team decided to revamp the app due to the wide uptake of smartphones in the Australian market, and to improve their user-interface experience. The UTS Business School was the launch partner for the app, providing logistical advice on the app's delivery. The app's subscription price is included in the 'all premium digital subscription' bundle. The Australian Financial Review has grown its product offerings since its beginnings as
2726-422: Was The Australian Financial Times , which was in operation for less than 12 months. In the 1960s and 1970s, the AFR developed a strong readership amongst a specialist business audience due to its neutral stance on domestic government policies. In the 1970s, despite the AFR's reputation as a national business daily, many saw it as the primary competitor for The Australian given its high proportion of readers in
2784-630: Was acquired from the Bauer Media Group by Sydney –based investment firm Mercury Capital . The Australian version of Rolling Stone launched in May 1970 as a supplement in Revolution , a counter-culture magazine edited and published by Phillip Frazer in Melbourne as an offshoot of his teen-based pop newspaper Go-Set . Go-Set introduced a counter-culture supplement called Core on 13 December 1969, edited by Ed Nimmervoll who had worked on Go-Set since 1966. Frazer soon decided that
2842-551: Was also put under review by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) on antitrust measures. It was announced in November 2018 that the ACCC would not oppose the merger. The investigation looked at the merger's impact on the online news industry's competition and involved contacting numerous stakeholders. It was noted that the merger would most likely reduce competition in the domestic media market, but that it
2900-493: Was an Indian Summer, and in January 2018, Paper Riot went into external administration and the last issue of Australian Rolling Stone appeared. In January 2019, it was announced that Rolling Stone would be returning to the Australian market. Commencing in 2010, the Rolling Stone Australia Awards are awarded annually in January by Rolling Stone Australia for outstanding contributions to popular culture in
2958-410: Was blamed for overlooking corporate corruption and wrongdoings, while publishing mainly favourable news articles handed to them from corporate PR teams. Also during this time, The National Times which was Australia's leading financial investigative journalism newspaper, shut down after the stock market crash. Therefore, during the 2000s, following the financial market failures and economic downturn of
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#17328591985863016-784: Was hosted by Tex Perkins . The fifth Rolling Stone Australia Awards took place in February 2014, at Sydney's Beach Road Hotel in Bondi . The sixth Rolling Stone Australia Awards took place on 25 February 2015 at Sydney's Fox Studios. It was hosted by Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab . The 2021 ceremony took place on 31 March 2021 at The Argyle, Sydney. The 2022 awards ceremony took place on 30 March 2022 at The Argyle, Sydney, NSW. The nominees were revealed on 13 January 2022. The nominees were revealed on 1 February 2023. The ceremony took place in Sydney on 4 April 2023. The nominees were revealed on 4 March 2024 with
3074-406: Was launched as a fully fledged magazine in 1972 by Frazer and was the longest-surviving international edition of Rolling Stone until its last issue appeared in January 2018. As of February 2019, Rolling Stone Australia returned with a digital platform published by The Brag Media , in an exclusive licensing deal with Rolling Stone owner Penske Media Corporation. In June 2020, the magazine
3132-460: Was made editor. Ed St.John had by now left to become a record company executive, and Creswell was a journalist steeped in the Rolling Stone ethos and tradition but crucially also possessed of a certain vision for Australian music, and it was he who shaped the magazine into its most successful and very Australian form in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Naturally it still relied heavily on its American parent for content, but with Clinton Walker especially as
3190-511: Was not in breach of the Competition and Consumer Act . The main point of divergence between the two business' assets was that Nine Entertainment's news assets provided mass market news coverage whereas Fairfax Media's news assets provided more specialist coverage. Despite the ACCC's ruling, there were a few stakeholders who voiced their concerns about the merger's impact on the Australian media industry's competitive landscape. Union groups such as
3248-413: Was priced at $ 37.84 AUD. As a result, the AFR has since lowered its digital subscription price to $ 29.50 AUD. The mega-cap deal that saw Nine Entertainment and Fairfax Media merge was inspired by initial chats between Hugh Marks (Nine CEO) and Nick Falloon (Fairfax chairman). The pair discussed how the two companies' assets could synergise, improve efficiencies, save costs and increase scale. During
3306-401: Was sufficient. On the other hand, all other daily mastheads needed company advertising to stay profitable. This afforded the AFR 's editors the flexibility to pursue and publish news articles that shed a negative light on major companies without needing to be concerned about its financial impacts. In the early 2010s, the AFR 's political stance has been labelled as neutral. During
3364-429: Was to inform the Australian public on business life and news. In 1961, the AFR converted to a bi-weekly, and then established itself as the first daily newspaper by 1963. Despite other newspapers claiming the title of the first daily national paper, Maxwell Newton was the editor in charge of taking the Financial Review from a bi-weekly to the first daily national paper. During 1961–62, the AFR's primary competitor
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