Maryna Fewster and Adam Everett

The appointments come following last Friday’s news John Driscoll had stepped down from the position of CEO Seven West Media WA.

Chairman Kerry Stokes recently discussed with Driscoll new additional responsibilities to the CEO role that would have required extensive travel.

Driscoll decided for family reasons that he would not be able to accommodate the additional responsibilities.

Current Seven West Media WA chief operating officer Maryna Fewster has been appointed acting chief executive officer WA.

Current general manager, circulation & distribution, Adam Everett has been appointed chief operating officer WA.

In their new roles Fewster and Everett will be responsible for SWM’s WA operations including The West Australian newspaper, The Sunday Times, thewest.com.au, perthnow.com.au, nine radio stations, 20 regional newspapers and Channel Seven Perth, as well as SWM’s holding in the Community Newspaper Group, a joint-venture with News Corp Australia.

Tim Worner said: “We are very fortunate to have Maryna available to step straight into this role and continue to evolve the business. She has already had a huge impact since joining us in April last year, and we are looking forward to that continuing impact.

“Adam is one of the most experienced and accomplished newspaper executives in the country and has a very long track record of out-performance and innovation when it comes to circulation and distribution. He has also been outstanding in challenging convention to bring about efficiencies. This role will see him use all those qualities across our entire WA business.”

Worner added: “We are proud of our deep and enduring connection with the people of Western Australia, which stretches back 185 years to the establishment of The West Australian in 1833.”

Fewster joined SWM in April 2017 as chief operating officer (WA). Prior to that she worked at iiNet for over a decade as GM corporate services, chief customer officer and chief operating officer.

Everett has been SWM WA’s general manager, circulation and distribution, since 2012. Prior to this he worked for News Corp Australia as director of circulation for Nationwide News in Sydney from 1999-2004 and then director of circulation for Advertiser Newspapers in Adelaide from 2004-12.

The public broadcaster, which has mounted a fierce campaign against a government freeze in its funding, rewarded 189 employees on executive pay grades more than $2.2 million.

Almost 200 non-executive employees also received bonuses totalling $384,989.

The ABC has refused to publicly disclose salaries despite Turnbull Government demands.

It comes as ABC news director Gaven Morris warned there “is no more fat left to cut” at the national broadcaster and any more would “cut into the muscle of the organisation”.

The broadcaster’s 2016-17 report also shows it splurged more than $10 million in market research and promotion and more than $1.5 million on consultancy firms.

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Doohan, who now counts himself as an investor, was giving evidence about Wagner’s reputation, in the defamation trial brought by the Wagner family against radio host Alan Jones, Radio 4BC Brisbane and others.

Doohan told the court he had been a friend of John Wagner for about 20 years, but had never had any business dealings with him.

Jones will be the first witness for the defence today.

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CDM’s head of sales and partnerships Najeeb Aftab said: “The team at Media Planet has extensive experience in out-of-home advertising and a proven track record of innovation and creativity. We’re very excited to be partnering with Media Planet as well roll out the TaxiLive nationally.”

Co-founder and director of Media Planet Greg Johnston said: “TaxiLive is a truly dynamic platform that gives advertisers the flexibility to place multiple creatives by time, location and weather – within minutes. Contextual relevance is particularly important when it comes to running successful campaigns and the TaxiLive provides this powerful feature to advertisers. We’re thrilled to be working with CDM in helping the market realise the potential of this unique, innovative solution.”

TaxiLive is a GPS-enabled smart display with weather sensors that is managed by CDM and powered by the Telstra mobile network.

The platform is currently live on the back of over 300 taxis in Sydney, with the platform expanding into Melbourne in August and nationally by the end of the year. CDM also has plans in place to start sharing revenue with taxi owners and drivers.

Media Planet is one of Australia’s leading and most diverse retail out-of-home media companies. Its assets include over 1,100 regional and metropolitan shopping centres, onboard advertising on all Tigerair domestic flights and transit environments across Australia.

If you want proof that we’re for business, look no further than edition No. 1 of The Perth Gazette.

The first newspaper in the fledgling Swan River Colony, and a direct ancestor of the copy of The West Australian, saw fit to devote almost the entire front page of its inaugural edition on January 5, 1833, to matters of commerce.

Even the primitive form of “lifestyle”’ journalism in that newspaper had a commercial edge: a story on the opening of The Wheat-Sheaf Tavern assured readers that publican Jane Barron would provide “assiduous attention to the comfort of her guests”.

The editor of The Perth Gazette clearly thought that business was of critical interest to his readers. Nearly two centuries later, and with WA one of the world’s most prolific trading provinces, we still think he was right.

The West has been there to chronicle our commercial fortunes and our changing economy.

The West Australian has seen it all. The newspaper’s business journalists have spoken to them all.

It is a tradition of which we are proud because, like The Perth Gazette, we see commerce as the lifeblood of our society and because we agree with Winston Churchill’s view of business.

“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”

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Caspar Llewellyn Smith, editor of the Guardian’s digital platforms, announced the new “Live” and “Discover” features today.

At the cost of £5.99 ($9.99 in Australia) a month, users of the app can swipe left to access a live feed of the latest news from the Guardian with rolling updates.

The Guardian has reiterated its commitment to keeping all of its online journalism free, with Llewellyn Smith saying in an announcement today: “None of our journalism is going behind a paywall.”

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The weekly program will premiere on May 20. It can be heard on Sydney’s KIIS 1065, Melbourne’s KIIS 101.1, Brisbane’s 97.3 and Adelaide’s Mix 102.3 from 6pm-7pm every Sunday.

KIIS entertainment reporter John “JC” Caldwell will host the show. The Voice contestants and coaches Delta Goodrem, Joe Jonas, Boy George and Kelly Rowland will join Caldwell on the program.

The launch of the radio show coincides with the launch of The Voice’s live performance television shows.

Caldwell said: “Each week KIIS listeners will share in all of the excitement and drama of what normally stays hidden behind the scenes of The Voice. This year we’ll have more access than ever before to really get the juicy gossip from the judges.”

ARN’s national content director Duncan Campbell said: “Celeb HQ Goes Behind The Voice gives KIIS listeners the opportunity to get an insight into the inner workings of The Voice and have a direct line to the news and entertainment stories from the show.”

Nine’s head of content production and development Adrian Swift said: “Following the success of Behind The Voice in recent years, we are once again pleased to be working with ARN to deliver exclusive behind-the-scenes access to our superstar coaches and the fans’ favourite artists before each Live Show every Sunday.”

At least, that’s what the Nine star said during a cheeky interview with Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa on Tuesday.

The radio hosts wanted to probe Stefanovic about his supposed rivalry with Sunrise hosts David Koch and Sam Armytage, and Stefanovic seemed happy to play along.

The Seven and Nine stars are all staying in the same hotel in London as they report on this weekend’s royal wedding.

Fitzy and Wippa then suggested they get Armytage on the phone so the pair could go head-to-head. Karl agreed – on one condition.

“I just want to have it on the record that there’s no dramas between us. But now, let’s do a sting on her,” he laughed.

Soon enough, Armytage was on the line, the morning TV stars trading savage barbs back and forth.

“It’s Karl. You might know me from such shows as the Today show in Australia,” Stefanovic told her.

“Look, I’ve never watched it. I’ve heard it’s a bit second rate,” she quipped.

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With the Nine Network losing the cricket broadcast rights, Lawry has announced he will no longer be behind the microphone, staying loyal to the network that he has called home for so long.

Lawry spoke to Gerard Whateley on SEN’s Whateley about his career and the decision to retire.

“I’ve had 40 great years at Channel Nine and I’ve been very lucky,” he said.

Lawry said he has had approaches from Seven and Fox Sports about continuing his commentary career, but he said “No”.

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DAZN charges close to $12 a month and intends to challenge pay-per view TV by amassing tens of millions of customers willing to watch a wide range of sports content cheaply.

“We have seen in music with Spotify and TV with Netflix and Amazon that people will pay a sensible amount of money for a good service,” the Perform chief executive, Simon Denyer, said. “We want to be a Netflix for sport.”

Last year, while DAZN showed tremendous growth with revenues rocketing from £8.7m to £90.8m, the overall Perform Group, which also sells some digital sports rights to other media groups, saw its operating losses quadruple from £50.8m to £214m.

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Perform has offices in Sydney and Melbourne and operates the Sporting News brand in Australia.