News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt has struck back against a court judgement which found him guilty of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act, branding the finding an attack on free speech.

Australian Financial Review Group CEO Brett Clegg has scored another coup by hiring Michael Stutchbury, The Australian's economics editor, as editor-in-chief of the highbrow tabloid.

Conservative columnist Andrew Bolt has today been found guilty of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act over a 2009 article in which he accused fair-skinned Aboriginal people of playing up being black for career advancement.

Poorly-performing Melbourne talkback station MTR is about to get a major overhaul – and may still be sold off altogether.

Julia Gillard's latest Blair government appointee may just be the man to see her better coping with the relentless 24/7 news cycle, given his extensive experience under difficult circumstances.

ABC Brisbane mornings host Madonna King will hang up the headphones in October after six years hosting the agenda-setting program.

John Hartigan is set to lead the transformation of News Limited, as it moves to re-brand itself as News Australia.

The increasingly bitter stoush between left-wing public intellectual Robert Manne and the bigwigs at The Australian newspaper shows no sign of stopping.

The Press Council needs to do a better job, its chairman Julian Disney admits. We know we need to lift our game, he told The Power Index yesterday, but we intend to do that.

Ray Finkelstein QC's media inquiry may not pursue bias in the media, but The Power Index hears that broadcasting regulator ACMA has already got Alan Jones and 2GB in its sights.