With controlling stakes in Australia's highest rating TV network, Channel Seven, the nation's second-biggest magazine group, Pacific Magazines and The West Australian, the 71-year old tycoon should be a real power in the land.

As the man in charge of our national broadcaster, ABC boss Mark Scott has tremendous power over one of Australia's most loved and important national institutions. And we reckon he's doing a fine job.

Our “If I ran Fairfax” series continues with a Johannesburg-based journo, a Liberal party election campaign veteran, a leading ad-man, and a former editor of The Age weigh in with their ideas.

There will be no Christmas cards from Rupert Murdoch for his old chum Andrew Neil this year, after the ex-editor of London’s Sunday Times let fly at his former boss in a written submission to Britain’s Leveson Inquiry.

He grabs the reader's attention from the first line and refuses, like a dog with a bone, to let it go until he's done.

With Bob Brown gone, Labor’s relationship with the Greens was bound to come to grief. But given Labor's lack of moral and political capital, distancing itself from the Greens won't be enough against a relentless Tony Abbott.

Jones is not just a radio host: he's a self-appointed ombudsman on a mission to right society's wrongs.

WikiLeaks has now teamed with a bankrupt Spanish publisher, a French web upstart and a newspaper accused of bias towards the Assad regime as media partners for the release of 2.4 million Syrian government emails.

No person has snatched, wielded and lost more power in the past eighteen months than Julian Assange. We spoke to one of the world's most wanted men about why he does it.

Gina Rinehart isn’t known for olive branches, but that appears to be what she’s extended to the Fairfax board.