NEWS Limited chairman and chief executive John Hartigan last night urged academics to be impartial when researching the media.

PRESSURE is building inside Fairfax Media to reinstate high-profile columnist Mike Carlton as its flagship newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald is flooded with letters from readers protesting about his abrupt sacking.

PRINTING and marketing group PMP is expanding into book distribution after yesterday paying $21 million for one of Australia's largest movers of niche books, Scribo Group.

THE ABC has launched its bid to overturn non-publication orders on evidence given to an inquest into the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee.