Today in Media Files, Nine.com.au apologises for publishing a picture of the wrong person in a story about a paedophile, and a new report shows Australians don’t want to pay for news online.

Nine’s photo mix-up. Nine has apologised for publishing a picture of the wrong man with a story about the conviction of a paedophile. Keith Dudley was convicted of sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl, and Nine’s website published a story on Thursday about the case, using a picture of a different man named Keith Dudley. On Friday afternoon, the website published an apology for the mistake, saying it was inadvertent: “Nine.com.au clarifies that the man depicted was not Keith Dudley and is in no way connected with the subject matter of that article. Nine.com.au apologises unreservedly to the man depicted and his family for the error.”

Fairfax Media issued an apology on Friday morning for a similar mistake — its websites published a picture of a person by the same name as one of the men arrested last week in the Border Force arrests.

Aussies won’t pay for news. Ninety per cent of Australians won’t pay for news because they can get it for free, according to a new report from Deloitte. But they’re still concerned about the quality of news, and are less likely to rely on social media for news than they were last year. Subscriptions to streaming video services have surpassed pay TV subscriptions for the first time, according to a new report from Deloitte. The 2017 media consumer survey found that TV is just as popular as ever — with 59% of respondents saying it was in their top three preferred entertainment activity — but we’re just not doing it the same way. The amount of time we spend watching TV and movies has increased from 17.2 hours to 17.5 hours a week, and the majority of people say they binged on a TV show. Sport and news are the most-watched programs live, but that’s declined in the last two years. In 2015, 63% of respondents said they most often watched the news live, but that’s declined to 45%.

Reading the Samday papers. The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun sold off even their own mastheads for some sweet advertising dollar yesterday. As part of an Uber campaign — free rides for anyone named Sam — the two papers rebranded as the Samday Tele and Samday Herald Sun. In a press release issued yesterday, News Corp, which publishes the two papers, said it was “a unique example of print innovation”. It’s the first time the Sunday Herald Sun has rebranded its actual name, and the second time the Tele has done it.

Election day letter breaches standards. The Australian Press Council has found that the Northern Star breached its principles by running a letter about a local council candidate in Lismore on the day of the council elections without allowing a right of reply. The letter, from deputy mayor Simon Clough, said voters should “carefully consider” whether they should vote for Councillor Greg Bennett. Bennett complained about the letter, saying he would have written a letter in response and that the publication of the letter on the polling day had cost him the mayorship. The press council wouldn’t rule on the impact the letter had on the vote, but found that the Northern Star didn’t “take reasonable steps to present factual material with reasonable fairness and balance and afford the complainant a fair opportunity for reply”.

Front page of the day.

Glenn Dyer’s TV Ratings.The commencement of the current series of Australian Survivor and The Bachelor has not built on the solid ratings from MasterChef for Ten. In fact, Ten’s ratings have slid, to the point where it was well beaten by the ABC. The week before Ten was narrowly in front of the ABC in total people for the week and tied the main channels. Last night saw no improvement as the ABC eased into third, well ahead of Ten.

The Block dominated the night with 1.9 million national viewers, and lifted Nine to a win. It will win the week, just as it won the week last week — Seven is left in its dust and Wednesday’s full year profit announcement from Seven West Media will be a glum old affair. Hell’s Kitchen Australia could only manage 830,000 national, still over 300,000 short of the debut episode’s 1.18 million. Australian Survivor managed 792,000 nationally last night. That was up 7,000 from last Sunday. Hardly a winner.

In regional areas, Nine rules through The Block with 617,000 viewers, Seven News was second with 606,000, Nine News (6.30pm) was third with 470,000, Sunday Night was on 453,000 and Nine News ended with 440,000 in fifth. — Read the rest on the Crikey website