Start the Week: Reporting the biggest Royal story; TikTok the espionage machine?; NRL holds out its hand for Foxtel cash

Welcome to Unmade’s Start the Week podcast.

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Today’s topics:

• Media rises to the Royal challenge

• Nine’s journalists prepare to strike

• TikTok - an espionage machine?

• NRL pushes for an extra Foxtel payday

• The week in TV

Today’s episode features Tim Burrowes and Abe Udy. As always, we’d love to hear what you think at letters@unmade.media

Further reading on today’s topics:

• Unmade: Performative

  BOTW: Performative.

• The Australian: Queen Elizabeth II souvenir print editions fly off the shelves

• The Australian: Why Albanese did a ‘take two’ on Queen’s address

• The Australian: Journalists at Nine Entertainment newspapers set for two-day walkout over pay dispute

• Mumbrella: Nine’s Chessell:AAP deal and ‘constructive negotiations with journos’

• Sydney Morning Herald: TikTok a ‘tool of espionage’ for China, says boss of media giant

• Australian Financial Review: TikTok gets its lobby on

• Sydney Morning Herald: NRL to seek millions in compensation from Foxtel after monster AFL deal

• Nine corporate: Weekly Oztam analysis

• Daily Mail: Channel Nine insiders reveal off-contract The Project host Carrie Bickmore has been targeted to take over from Tracy Grimshaw on A Current Affair

• The Australian: Wildcards in ACA’s hunt for new Tracy Grimshaw

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