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”.
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