''Business Spectator'' is an Australian business news website led by

Alan Kohler Alan Robert Kohler (born 26 April 1952) is an Australian financial journalist and newspaper editor. He currently writes for his own online financial publication, ''The Constant Investor''. Career In 1969, Kohler began as a cadet on ''The Aust ...

as chairman and editor in chief. It is published by Australian Independent Business Media which is owned by

News Corp Australia News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp. One of Australia's largest media conglomerates, News Corp Australia employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,00 ...

History

''Business Spectator'' was launched on 30 October 2007. It was established by journalists Alan Kohler, Stephen Bartholomeusz,

Robert Gottliebsen Robert Norman Gottliebsen (born 4 February 1941) is a columnist for '' Business Spectator'' and an economics writer at ''The Australian''. He was the original columnist "Chanticleer" for the ''Australian Financial Review'' and founder of '' Busin ...

, and

Eric Beecher Eric Beecher is an Australian journalist, editor and media proprietor. He was editor of the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' for four years and for three years was editor-in-chief of the Herald and Weekly Times group. Career In 1990, he founded Text ...

, with

financial Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of f ...

backing from John Wylie and Mark Carnegie, and with a target audience of business people. Australian Independent Business Media was sold to News Limited in 2012 for , after

Fairfax Media Fairfax Media was a media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased '' The Sydney Morning Hera ...

was out-bid. In 2014 a

subscription The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century, a ...

system was introduced for the website, with columns by the main contributors placed behind a

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References

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