Gina Rinehart has secured an indirect 9.15 per cent interest in Southern Cross Media Group, through a loan to Kerry Stokes's long-time lieutenant Bruce McWilliam.
Shareholders of Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media risk losing their shares by forced sale if they don't carefully read the Southern Cross Media merger documents.
The Fremantle Herald has accused West Australian Newspapers of refusing to print the weekend edition of its newspaper, after a contract negotiation went sour.
The West Australian failed to provide fair and balanced coverage of former Perth Lord Mayoral candidate Sandy Anghie on multiple occasions, the company's self-funded regulator has found.
Nine Entertainment's Perth director of news Gareth Parker will become the latest senior WA media figure to leave the state, taking up a Sydney-based role with the organisation.
Seven Group Holdings has withdrawn its market guidance on the back of falling advertising revenue and declining oil prices, on the same day that Seven West Media criticised a report it was entertaining a prospective sale of West Australian Newspapers Holdings.
Woodside Petroleum's ambitious play for Oil Search is a rare example of a Perth-based company being the bidder in a big takeover. Click through to see Business News' listing and analysis of $1 billion-plus M&A deals in WA over the past 20 years.
