Today in Media Files, the Daily Telegraph and ABC both take credit for justice in a long-running murder case, and TV journalist Peter Luck has reportedly died.

Credit where credit’s due. The news yesterday that a young mum’s murderers had been found guilty by a jury five years after her death has received wide coverage by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and the ABC. Lynette Daley was sexually assaulted and killed in 2011, and the Tele first put her story on the front page in February last year — a fact reported on its front page this morning and, of course, referred to in the body of the story .

But over at the ABC, it wasn’t the Tele‘s reporting that was credited with pushing authorities to review a DPP decision not to prosecute the men. That review was prompted by a Four Corners report in May last year, according to reports on ABC online and TV yesterday, without any mention of the Tele.

Of course, neither outlet’s reporting would have come about without Daley’s friends and families pushing her story. Her stepfather Gordon Davis said after the verdict:

“It’s been hard. We thought we wouldn’t get anywhere, but we never gave up. We just pushed and pushed and kept trotting and treading around and it worked in the end. Never give up, no matter what happens.”

Vale Peter Luck. Journalist Peter Luck has died, aged 73. Luck’s friend Mike Carlton reported the death on Twitter this morning, saying the former reporter had been battling Parkinson’s disease. Luck reported for Four Corners, This Day Tonight, Today Tonight, Sunday and Inside Edition.

Podcasts are a ‘thing’. In not-very-surprising research out from the ABC today, 89% of Australians are “claiming to be aware of podcasts”. The survey, commissioned by the public broadcaster, also found that more than half of adult Australians have “tried podcasting”, and more than half of regular podcast listeners say they spend more time listening than they did last year. In a press release about the research, ABC radio director Michael Mason said there had been “enormous growth” in on-demand audio for the ABC. “We know there’s a strong appetite for this sort of content thanks to smash hits such as Serial and Trace so we will be releasing more material like this in 2018,” he said.

The research was released ahead of the ABC’s OzPod conference, which will be held in Sydney tomorrow.

Front page of the day. The Bristol Post‘s take on the story about a woman who got caught between two windows trying to retrieve poo she’d thrown out the window after eating some Nando’s on a date:

Photographer shot by US cop. An American news photographer was shot by a police officer who thought his camera was a weapon. New Carlisle News photographer Andy Grimm was shot while out on a work assignment, taking pictures of lightning. The News reports Grimm’s account:

“‘I was going out to take pictures and I saw the traffic stop and I thought, ‘hey, cool. I’ll get some pictures here.'” He said he pulled into Studebaker’s parking lot in full view of the deputy, got out of his Jeep in full view of the deputy and started setting up his tripod and camera. “I turned around toward the cars and then ‘pop, pop,'”. Andy said the deputy gave him no warning. ‘I was just doing my job,’ he said.

He was hit in the side and had surgery, but the newspaper reports he’s expected to make a full recovery.

Commercials calling for another ABC and SBS review. Yet again, the same gang of commercial media executives have lined up to once again demand a review of the ABC and SBS charters for the third time in as many months. And of course, the source for this call was the completely unbiased INFORM News Media Summit in Sydney via a panel hosted by the bastion of bias, Paul Murray, a host on the post-7pm babel of babble on Sky News (which is 100% owned by News Corp, like The Australian, where Darren “Lurch” Davidson provided the free kick this morning).

Of course, being a report in The Australian, the lead-off batter was Michael Miller, the executive chair of News Corp Australia , who presided over a massive loss of more than $400 million for News Corp Australia after it was written down by US$310 million in the year to June. It was the second-biggest loss in the Australian media in the year.

Miller has a poor track record at News — another of his responsibilities is the 50% of Foxtel that News owns (which saw a sharp fall in profit and subscriber numbers in the year to June, and the US$227 million write-down by News of the value of its investment in Foxtel. 

Miller’s criticisms of SBS are increasingly bizarre. According to the report, Miller “also cited SBS’s tactic of taking on commercial networks at their own game with the acquisition of food, lifestyle, and hipster content originally designed for US cable and satellite broadcasters”.

“Hipster content”? Is he referring to the joint venture with Vice Media in broadcasting Viceland on SBS 2? That is very odd — Rupert Murdoch’s other company 21st Century Fox owns a 5% stake of Vice Media. Other big media companies such as Disney, and private equity group, TPG are investors in Vice. They are not noted for their charity work. They saw the benefits of linking with SBS and not Foxtel.

What Miller is frightened of is TV viewers abandoning a channel they have to pay money for (to Foxtel and News Corp) and watching it for free on SBS. This is just the latest in a long, long, long list of claims by News Corp, the Murdochs and other media companies and their shills to some sort of entitlement to dominate the Australian media with no competition. — Glenn Dyer

Glenn Dyer’s TV Ratings. The expensively refurbished Footy Show on Nine continues its slide under Eddie McGuire. It was moved to last night at 9.40pm because of tonight’s broadcast on Seven of the first qualifying semi-final in the AFL, and so was Seven’s more modest The Front Bar, which aired for an hour from 8.30pm, and was over before Eddie appeared. The result — The Front Bar, with 177,000 viewers in Melbourne (the market that matters), lead The Footy Show fronted by Eddie on 166,000. In the five city metro, The Front Bar averaged 253,000 viewers, The Footy Show, 242,00. Nationally The Front Bar managed 337,000, The Footy Show 306,000.

Nine’s night, easily, again. Doctor Doctor provided a nice boost for Nine with 1.099 million national viewers. Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell on the ABC ended on a strong note with 1.06 million nationally and Utopia departed with 1.02 million. Both topped Doctor Doctor in the metros. In regional markets Seven News led the way with 580,000 viewers, followed by Seven News/Today Tonight with 481,000, The Block with 477,000, Home and Away was fourth with 454,000, and Doctor Doctor was fifth with 396,000. — Read the rest on the Crikey website