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Murdoch’s Flagship

Twenty-five Years of the Australian Newspaper

Academic Monograph

Denis Cryle

Murdoch’s Flagship provides the first in-depth overview of the
Australian newspaper, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across
its first three decades.

Opinion

“Cryle, a respected media historian, provides a necessary corrective to the self-mythologising within Murdoch's publications about his seemingly inevitable rise. (Matthew Ricketson, January 28, 2009, The Age)

Click link for full review: www.mup.com.au

‘[Cryle] has produced an erudite, well-researched, and absorbing work of newspaper history.’
--Jacqueline Dickenson, Journal of Australian Studies, Vol.33 No.3

About this Title

Murdoch’s Flagship provides the first in-depth overview of the Australian, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across its first three decades. While the Fairfax and Packer media groups have received detailed historical coverage over the years, Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited and the Australian have not been given the same systematic attention by historians.

Denis Cryle draws on a vast amount of secondary print material, his own extensive interviews with past and present staff and a detailed reading of the Australian’s newspaper files to capture the vitality of the newspaper over three seminal decades.

About the Author

Denis Cryle is Professor in Communication and Media Studies at Central Queensland University. He has published widely in both national and international media collections and recently co-edited Consensus and Consent: Politics, Media and Governance in Twentieth-century Australia with Jean Hillier.

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