The Monthly's popular daily column will be spun off by Piers Grove, whose last publishing venture saw a mass exodus of staff.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/10/schwartz-media-sale-the-politics-piers-grove/

Schwartz Media has sold off The Monthly’s popular daily politics column, The Politics, to former Betoota Advocate publisher and Daily Aus investor Piers Grove for an unknown sum. It is understood the sale went through in early November 2023.

The new spinoff website will be led by Rachel Withers as editor-in-chief; Withers currently serves as contributing editor of the column.

Crikey understands the sale triggered two redundancies — including Withers, who accepted a move across to the new publication.

A draft press release, seen by Crikey, described the new venture as “an exciting opportunity to expand The Politics, bringing the progressive, no-bullshit attitude towards Canberra politics you’ve come to know and love from The Politics newsletter to a new media outlet”.

Current subscribers to the daily email, which will remain free, will be transferred over to the new website in early February. Withers will continue to pen the daily column from Monday to Thursday, with RRR’s Daniel James at the helm on Fridays.

Grove served for six years on the national committee for the Australian Republican Movement, as well as a bevy of climate organisations and startups. His experience in publishing is primarily among progressive and youth-focused outlets, having started as the founding publisher of The Betoota Advocate in 2014. In September 2019, Grove also took over as publisher of Instagram-focused outlet The Daily Aus.

In December 2021, Grove stepped down from both outlets to take over youth news website Junkee as publisher, after it was bought out by RACAT Group. Within a year, Junkee was facing accusations of dysfunction, heavy losses and a mass exodus of staff, as revealed in a Crikey investigation. Grove subsequently sold his stake in the venture to RACAT and stepped away from the organisation.

Speaking to Crikey, Grove said he “looked forward to growing and expanding The Politics and broadening the masthead” moving forward.

Withers told Crikey she was “stoked to have the chance to create another home for smart, progressive politics in Australia”.

“I’ve always wanted to launch something like this, and it feels like exactly the right time (yes, even amid mass layoffs) for something fresh, youth-led, and free of many of the constraints facing other media outlets,” she said.

The Monthly editor Michael Williams confirmed to Crikey that “Schwartz Media and The Monthly will have no further editorial or business involvement with The Politics”.

Williams added that The Monthly team was “extremely proud of the following that has built up for The Politics, and its deserved reputation as a place for smart, engaged daily political content and will be keen readers of it in its new standalone form”.

Schwartz Media founder Morry Schwartz and editor-in-chief Erik Jensen did not respond for comment.

Oh golly! Well, it seems that my daily read bookmark for https://www.themonthly.com.au/the-politics can be deleted now. Atm i don't have a new url.

#TheMonthly #ThePolitics #AusPol #Media #RachelWithers

By the amazing Rachel Withers:

"This morning, a set of data – confirming what many implicitly understood – got people fuming online. It was a report by CommBank iQ, showing that while younger and poorer Australians are making drastic cuts to their personal budgets during this inflation crisis, older homeowners with savings are spending at a higher rate, having benefited from higher interest rates, and are therefore fuelling inflation further. We already knew rate rises were hitting generations unequally, but the stats are damning: over-65s increased their overall spending by 6 per cent across the year, above the rate of inflation, “splashing out” on cruises and package deals, while 25- to 29-year-olds, many of whom face escalating rental costs, cut back on spending, both essential and discretionary, to the tune of 5.1 per cent. It’s been obvious for some time now that the Stage 3 tax cuts need to be scrapped or amended. The Australia Institute’s Greg Jericho has done a phenomenal job of laying out how and why, offering the government an easy political sell. So how can Labor possibly go ahead with something that will put more money in the pockets of the “haves”, pumping inflation even higher, when it is the “have nots” who are already bearing the brunt of the rises in this shamefully unfair system?"

https://www.themonthly.com.au/the-politics/rachel-withers/2023/11/21/exit-stage-three

#auspol #rachelwithers #stage3taxcuts #alp #inflation

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