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'''Crikey''' is an Australian online news outlet founded in 1999. It consists of a website and email newsletter available to subscribers.
'''Crikey''' is an Australian electronic magazine comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. Crikey was described by the former Federal Opposition Leader ] as the "most popular website in Parliament House" in '']''.<ref>Mark Latham, ''The Latham Diaries'', Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2005, p 403.</ref> In 2014 it had around 17,000 paying subscribers.<ref>''A Companion to the Australian Media'', Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2014, p 124.</ref>


==History== ==History==
⚫ Crikey was founded by the ] ], a journalist and former staffer of then ] Victorian premier ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.artsaboutus.com.au/files/MCMX%20information%20(2).pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426012900/http://www.artsaboutus.com.au/files/MCMX%20information%20(2).pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-04-26|title=Multimedia Media Exchange}}</ref> It developed out of Mayne's "jeffed.com" website, which in turn developed out of his aborted independent candidate campaign for Kennett's seat of ]. Longstanding Crikey political commentators/reporters have included the former Liberal insider ] (who originally wrote under the pseudonym ]),<ref name="Name_behind_column">{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/03/1088488200420.html|title=Crikey! Name behind column comes clean on dishing dirt|last=Brown|first=Susan|date=4 July 2004|work=The Age|access-date=23 August 2009 | location=Melbourne}}</ref> ], Charles Richardson, ], ] and Hugo Kelly.
===Stephen Mayne===
⚫ Crikey was founded by the ] ], a journalist and former staffer of then ] ] ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.artsaboutus.com.au/files/MCMX%20information%20(2).pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426012900/http://www.artsaboutus.com.au/files/MCMX%20information%20(2).pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-04-26|title=Multimedia Media Exchange}}</ref> It developed out of Mayne's "jeffed.com" website, which in turn developed out of his aborted independent candidate campaign for Kennett's seat of ]. Longstanding Crikey political commentators/reporters have included the former Liberal insider ] (who originally wrote under the pseudonym ]),<ref name="Name_behind_column">{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/03/1088488200420.html|title=Crikey! Name behind column comes clean on dishing dirt|last=Brown|first=Susan|date=4 July 2004|work=The Age|access-date=23 August 2009 | location=Melbourne}}</ref> ], Charles Richardson, ], ] and Hugo Kelly.


In 2003, Mayne was forced to sell his house to settle defamation cases brought by the radio presenter ] and the former ] ] ] over false statements published about them by Crikey.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/06/1051987702129.html|title=Legal web snares Crikey publisher|last=Shiel|first=Fergus|date=7 May 2003|work=The Age|access-date=22 August 2009 | location=Melbourne}}</ref> In 2003, Mayne was forced to sell his house to settle defamation cases brought by the radio presenter ] and the former ] senator ] over false statements published about them by Crikey.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/06/1051987702129.html|title=Legal web snares Crikey publisher|last=Shiel|first=Fergus|date=7 May 2003|work=The Age|access-date=22 August 2009 | location=Melbourne}}</ref>


Staff of ] ] banned Crikey from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 budget 'lock ups' in which financial journalists are shown the federal budget papers some hours in advance so that their publications can report the budget in depth as soon as it is released. The grounds were that Crikey was not considered to be part of the "]". Staff of ] ] banned Crikey from the 2005, 2006, and 2007 budget "lock-ups" in which financial journalists are shown the federal budget papers some hours in advance so that their publications can report the budget in depth as soon as it is released. The grounds were that Crikey was not considered to be part of the "]".{{cn|date=June 2024}}


⚫ On 1 February 2005, it was announced that Stephen Mayne had sold Crikey to ] (later Private Media<ref name=pm>{{cite web | title=Home | website=Private Media | date=30 May 2024 | url=https://www.privatemedia.com.au/ | access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref>), a company owned by the former editor-in-chief of '']'', ], for ]1 million. Under the agreement, Mayne has occasionally written for the email newsletter.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Mayne-finds-a-million-reasons-to-sell/2005/02/02/1107228768929.html|title=Mayne finds a million reasons to sell|last=Carbone|first=Suzanne |date=3 February 2005|work=The Age|access-date=22 August 2009 | location=Melbourne}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Eric Beecher | website=friendlyjordies | date=26 April 2023 | url=https://www.friendlyjordies.com/post/eric-beecher | access-date=15 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Crikey Sold To Beecher For $1 Million | website=AustralianPolitics.com | date=2 February 2005 | url=https://australianpolitics.com/2005/02/02/crikey-sold-to-beecher-for-one-million.html/ | access-date=15 June 2024}}</ref>
⚫ ===Private Media Partners===
⚫ On 1 February 2005, it was announced that Stephen Mayne had sold Crikey to ], a company owned by the former editor-in-chief of '']'', ], for ]1 million. Under the agreement, Mayne has occasionally written for the email newsletter.<ref name="Million_reasons">{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Mayne-finds-a-million-reasons-to-sell/2005/02/02/1107228768929.html|title=Mayne finds a million reasons to sell|last=Carbone|first=Suzanne |date=3 February 2005|work=The Age|access-date=22 August 2009 | location=Melbourne}}</ref>


Under Private Media Partners' stewardship, the publication had aimed for a more "professional" style by avoiding the use of in-house nicknames and other idiosyncrasies of the original Crikey. In February 2006, ] reported that a co-founder and writer, Hugo Kelly, had been sacked on the grounds of professional misconduct, but Kelly maintained that Crikey had folded to political pressure and it had "no guts".<ref name="watch_what_you_say">{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/crikey-youve-got-to-watch-what-you-say/2006/02/15/1139890806140.html |title=Crikey! You've got to watch what you say |last1=Westerman |first1=Helen |last2=Urban |first2=Rebecca |work=] |access-date=22 August 2009 |location=Melbourne | date=16 February 2006}}</ref> Under Private Media's stewardship, the publication aimed for a more "professional" style by avoiding the use of in-house nicknames and other idiosyncrasies of the original Crikey. In February 2006, '']'' reported that a co-founder and writer, Hugo Kelly, had been sacked on the grounds of professional misconduct, but Kelly maintained that Crikey had folded to political pressure and it had "no guts".<ref name="watch_what_you_say">{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/crikey-youve-got-to-watch-what-you-say/2006/02/15/1139890806140.html |title=Crikey! You've got to watch what you say |last1=Westerman |first1=Helen |last2=Urban |first2=Rebecca |work=] |access-date=22 August 2009 |location=Melbourne | date=16 February 2006}}</ref>


Several staff members left in the period 2013–2014, including senior reporter Andrew Crook and media editor Matthew Knott. The cartoon '']'' was published on Crikey until 2014, when writer ] moved to '']''. In March 2014, Crikey editor Jason Whittaker became the founding editor of Private Media's new publication ].<ref name=nocrisis>{{cite news|last1=Heffernan|first1=Madeleine|title=No crisis at Crikey, says Private Media chief|url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/no-crisis-at-crikey-says-private-media-chief-20140320-354b2.html|accessdate=15 June 2024|work= ]|date=20 March 2014}}</ref>
⚫ In 2022, following a war of words in which Crikey invited media proprietor ] to sue, Lachlan Murdoch commenced defamation action against Crikey for an article by ] that suggested that "Murdoch" was an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/24/lachlan-murdoch-statement-of-claim-crikey-news-australia-defamation|title=Australian media Lachlan Murdoch accuses Australian news site Crikey of using legal threat to attract subscriptions|first=Amanda|last=Meade|work=The Guardian|date=24 August 2022}}</ref> On 21 April 2023, Murdoch dropped legal proceedings against Crikey.<ref name="lmd">{{cite news |last=Meade |first=Amanda |date=21 April 2023 |title=Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation proceedings against independent Australian publisher Crikey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/21/lachlan-murdoch-drops-defamation-proceedings-against-independent-australian-publisher-crikey |work=] |access-date=21 April 2023}}</ref>

⚫ In 2022, following a war of words in which Crikey invited media proprietor ] to sue, Murdoch commenced defamation action against Crikey for an article by ] that suggested that Murdoch was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/24/lachlan-murdoch-statement-of-claim-crikey-news-australia-defamation|title=Australian media Lachlan Murdoch accuses Australian news site Crikey of using legal threat to attract subscriptions|first=Amanda|last=Meade|work=The Guardian|date=24 August 2022}}</ref> On 21 April 2023, Murdoch dropped legal proceedings against Crikey.<ref name="lmd">{{cite news |last=Meade |first=Amanda |date=21 April 2023 |title=Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation proceedings against independent Australian publisher Crikey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/21/lachlan-murdoch-drops-defamation-proceedings-against-independent-australian-publisher-crikey |work=] |access-date=21 April 2023}}</ref> In response, the chief executive of Private Media, Will Hayward, claimed victory, saying the decision amounted to a "substantial victory for legitimate public interest journalism".<ref>{{cite news |author=Heath Parkes-Hupton |agency= |title=Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation case against Crikey publisher |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-21/lachlan-murdoch-drops-crikey-defamation-case/102251072 |quote= |newspaper=] |date=2023-04-21 |access-date=2023-04-26 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Amanda Meade |agency= |title=Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation proceedings against independent Australian publisher Crikey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/21/lachlan-murdoch-drops-defamation-proceedings-against-independent-australian-publisher-crikey |quote= |newspaper=] |date=2023-04-21 |access-date=2023-04-26 }}</ref>

==Description==
Crikey is an Australian online news outlet, comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. It aims to "explain and dissect the news agenda for an intelligent, skeptical, socially and politically aware audience... to understand the news from a truly independent perspective".<ref>{{cite web | title=We Dig Deeper | website=Crikey | date=14 March 2023 | url=https://www.crikey.com.au/about/ | access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref>

{{as of|June 2024}} Sophie Black is editor-in-chief.<ref>{{cite web | title=Crikey Team | website=Crikey | date=27 May 2024 | url=https://www.crikey.com.au/crikey-team/ | access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref>

⚫ ==Private Media==
]<!--- a self-referring redirect until article is created---> is an independent media company. {{as of|June 2024}}, it publishes four brands: Crikey, ] (since 2014<ref name=nocrisis/><ref>{{cite web|title=The Mandarin: new online publication for public servants|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/the-mandarin-new-online-publication-for-public-servants/5721654|website=RN Breakfast|date=5 September 2014|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=26 March 2018}}</ref>), SmartCompany, and Inc.Australia.<ref name=pmhome>{{cite web | title=Home | website=Private Media | date=30 May 2024 | url=https://www.privatemedia.com.au/ | access-date=15 June 2024}}</ref> SmartCompany caters to small to medium business owners and managers,<ref>{{cite web | title=SmartCompany | website=SmartCompany | date=14 June 2024 | url=https://www.smartcompany.com.au/ | access-date=15 June 2024}}</ref> while Inc.Australia is for entrepreneurs.<ref>{{cite web | title=Home | website=Inc. Australia | date=6 December 2023 | url=https://www.inc-aus.com/ | access-date=15 June 2024|quote=Inc. Australia is the brand new, go-to resource for our boldest, most ambitious people: entrepreneurs. We serve and celebrate the founders, innovators and change makers building the fast-growing businesses shaping our future.}}</ref> Will Hayward is CEO, while ] is chair of Private Media.<ref name=pmhome/> (Beecher is also chair of ], which publishes ] and the superannuation-funded general news site, '']''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Eric Beecher | website=Public Interest Journalism Initiative | url=https://piji.com.au/board_staff/eric-beecher/ | access-date=15 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=About | website=The New Daily | date=22 June 2018 | url=https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/about | access-date=15 June 2024}}</ref><ref name=nocrisis/>)

Private Media formerly owned ] (2013–2015) and ] (2012–2016).<ref name=hicks2012>{{cite web | last=Hicks | first=Robin | title=Crikey publisher's Women's Agenda site goes live | website=] | date=7 August 2012 | url=https://mumbrella.com.au/crikey-publishers-female-website-womens-agenda-goes-live-108373 | access-date=14 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.crikey.com.au/2016/02/26/media-briefs-womens-agenda-sold-nightmare-on-zika-st-how-to-do-blackface/| title=Women's Agenda sold to Angela Priestley | website= Crikey| publication-date=18 March 2016 | via=National Library of Australia | archiveurl=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20160318121411/http://www.crikey.com.au/2016/02/26/media-briefs-womens-agenda-sold-nightmare-on-zika-st-how-to-do-blackface/| archive-date=18 Mar 2016 }} </ref>


== See also == == See also ==
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== External links == == External links ==
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Australian online news outlet This article is about the Australian online news outlet. For the exclamation, see Minced oath. For the snail genus, see Crikey steveirwini.

Crikey
crikey.com.au front page from 21 February 2007
Type of sitePolitical commentary
FoundedSeptember 1999; 25 years ago (1999-09)
OwnerPrivate Media Pty Ltd
URLwww.crikey.com.au
CommercialYes
RegistrationYes
Launched2000

Crikey is an Australian online news outlet founded in 1999. It consists of a website and email newsletter available to subscribers.

History

Crikey was founded by the activist shareholder Stephen Mayne, a journalist and former staffer of then Liberal Victorian premier Jeff Kennett. It developed out of Mayne's "jeffed.com" website, which in turn developed out of his aborted independent candidate campaign for Kennett's seat of Burwood. Longstanding Crikey political commentators/reporters have included the former Liberal insider Christian Kerr (who originally wrote under the pseudonym "Hillary Bray"), Guy Rundle, Charles Richardson, Bernard Keane, Mungo MacCallum and Hugo Kelly.

In 2003, Mayne was forced to sell his house to settle defamation cases brought by the radio presenter Steve Price and the former Labor Party senator Nick Bolkus over false statements published about them by Crikey.

Staff of Treasurer Peter Costello banned Crikey from the 2005, 2006, and 2007 budget "lock-ups" in which financial journalists are shown the federal budget papers some hours in advance so that their publications can report the budget in depth as soon as it is released. The grounds were that Crikey was not considered to be part of the "mainstream media".

On 1 February 2005, it was announced that Stephen Mayne had sold Crikey to Private Media Partners (later Private Media), a company owned by the former editor-in-chief of The Sydney Morning Herald, Eric Beecher, for A$1 million. Under the agreement, Mayne has occasionally written for the email newsletter.

Under Private Media's stewardship, the publication aimed for a more "professional" style by avoiding the use of in-house nicknames and other idiosyncrasies of the original Crikey. In February 2006, The Age reported that a co-founder and writer, Hugo Kelly, had been sacked on the grounds of professional misconduct, but Kelly maintained that Crikey had folded to political pressure and it had "no guts".

Several staff members left in the period 2013–2014, including senior reporter Andrew Crook and media editor Matthew Knott. The cartoon First Dog on the Moon was published on Crikey until 2014, when writer Andrew Marlton moved to Guardian Australia. In March 2014, Crikey editor Jason Whittaker became the founding editor of Private Media's new publication The Mandarin.

In 2022, following a war of words in which Crikey invited media proprietor Lachlan Murdoch to sue, Murdoch commenced defamation action against Crikey for an article by Bernard Keane that suggested that Murdoch was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. On 21 April 2023, Murdoch dropped legal proceedings against Crikey. In response, the chief executive of Private Media, Will Hayward, claimed victory, saying the decision amounted to a "substantial victory for legitimate public interest journalism".

Description

Crikey is an Australian online news outlet, comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. It aims to "explain and dissect the news agenda for an intelligent, skeptical, socially and politically aware audience... to understand the news from a truly independent perspective".

As of June 2024 Sophie Black is editor-in-chief.

Private Media

Private Media is an independent media company. As of June 2024, it publishes four brands: Crikey, The Mandarin (since 2014), SmartCompany, and Inc.Australia. SmartCompany caters to small to medium business owners and managers, while Inc.Australia is for entrepreneurs. Will Hayward is CEO, while Eric Beecher is chair of Private Media. (Beecher is also chair of Solstice Media, which publishes InDaily and the superannuation-funded general news site, The New Daily.)

Private Media formerly owned Daily Review (2013–2015) and Women's Agenda (2012–2016).

See also

Portals:

References

  1. "Multimedia Media Exchange" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2012.
  2. Brown, Susan (4 July 2004). "Crikey! Name behind column comes clean on dishing dirt". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  3. Shiel, Fergus (7 May 2003). "Legal web snares Crikey publisher". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  4. "Home". Private Media. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  5. Carbone, Suzanne (3 February 2005). "Mayne finds a million reasons to sell". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  6. "Eric Beecher". friendlyjordies. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  7. "Crikey Sold To Beecher For $1 Million". AustralianPolitics.com. 2 February 2005. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  8. Westerman, Helen; Urban, Rebecca (16 February 2006). "Crikey! You've got to watch what you say". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  9. ^ Heffernan, Madeleine (20 March 2014). "No crisis at Crikey, says Private Media chief". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  10. Meade, Amanda (24 August 2022). "Australian media Lachlan Murdoch accuses Australian news site Crikey of using legal threat to attract subscriptions". The Guardian.
  11. Meade, Amanda (21 April 2023). "Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation proceedings against independent Australian publisher Crikey". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  12. Heath Parkes-Hupton (21 April 2023). "Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation case against Crikey publisher". ABC News Australia. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  13. Amanda Meade (21 April 2023). "Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation proceedings against independent Australian publisher Crikey". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  14. "We Dig Deeper". Crikey. 14 March 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  15. "Crikey Team". Crikey. 27 May 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  16. "The Mandarin: new online publication for public servants". RN Breakfast. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  17. ^ "Home". Private Media. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  18. "SmartCompany". SmartCompany. 14 June 2024. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  19. "Home". Inc. Australia. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2024. Inc. Australia is the brand new, go-to resource for our boldest, most ambitious people: entrepreneurs. We serve and celebrate the founders, innovators and change makers building the fast-growing businesses shaping our future.
  20. "Eric Beecher". Public Interest Journalism Initiative. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  21. "About". The New Daily. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  22. Hicks, Robin (7 August 2012). "Crikey publisher's Women's Agenda site goes live". Mumbrella. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  23. "Women's Agenda sold to Angela Priestley". Crikey. 18 March 2016. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

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