Crikey

The editor-in-chief of independent publication Crikey will take leave from his position and seek assistance for his behaviour after heckling the winners of the top gong at Australia’s most…

The editor-in-chief of independent publication Crikey has apologised for heckling the winners of the top gong at Australia’s most coveted journalism awards during an incident which has…

If Lachlan Murdoch is a media Goliath, then Crikey just might be his David. Murdoch, one of the world’s richest and most powerful men, is suing Private Media, the publisher of news website…

LoadingIn a defence filed in court on Tuesday, Crikey disputed that the article at the centre of the case satisfied a new serious harm test that is now law in most parts of Australia,…

Under the new public interest defence, which started in NSW in July last year and has yet to be tested, Private Media must prove the article concerned an issue of public interest and it…

But Rolph added that “it’s not clear how courts will apply this new defence, and whether it will lead to different outcomes to earlier broad-based defences to defamation”. Those defences…

Crikey’s original article was removed along with an associated Facebook post and tweet, when Murdoch’s solicitor, John Churchill, wrote to the news outlet in June. It was republished last…

“We await your writ so that we can test this important issue of freedom of public interest journalism in a courtroom.”In a statement of claim, Murdoch’s lawyers note the article was free to…

A letter sent in late July by Churchill says the Crikey article caused aggravated harm to his client. “The notion that a mass media publication accusing a public figure of criminal conduct…

Meanwhile, a US Congressional Hearing last month heard that Trump was watching live footage of the riot on Fox News as it happened, ignoring pleas from his family and advisors to step…