Piers Grove’s media company stops publishing, misses salary payments

Progressive media mogul Piers Grove’s new venture has abruptly stopped publishing following a Crikey investigation, as one former employee says that the company has already missed deadlines for promised payments. 

Last month, Crikey revealed that the serial media investor — involved in publications like The Betoota Advocate and The Daily Aus — owed staff at his recently launched company General Publishing tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid salaries, mere months after launching.

Since then, the company’s politics publication The Politics, which was purchased from Schwartz Media in late 2023 for a sum Crikey understands was $200,000, has not published anything, diverging from its usual daily publishing schedule.