BotW: Kicking the can on the News Media Bargaining Code; Uncertainty guaranteed for News Corp; The InterCom combo; a tiny green shoot for K+J

Welcome to Best of the Week, kicked off on board QF1267 home to Tasmania after what will hopefully be my last Sydney trip of the year.

It was the week where all the last-episode-of-the-season plot threads came together. The government revealed a complicated new mechanism to make the platforms fund the news industry (and conveniently kicked the can down the road on whether to designate Meta, until after the election). Omnicom announced it’s buying Interpublic in a move which will create a new holdco giant. And a legal decision means Rupert Murdoch has no certainty over who will run the empire after his death.

Happy Pick A Pathologist Pal Day for yesterday.