Calum Jaspan
Calum Jaspan is a media writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, covering business stories with a particular focus on the media industry. His reporting tracks how decisions by broadcasters, publishers, tech platforms and advertisers shape commercial outcomes and audiences across television, radio, streaming and digital media.
Media companies and corporate strategy
Jaspan’s business coverage centres on the corporate manoeuvres of major media and entertainment companies, including ownership changes, investments and competition between established players and new entrants.
He reports on deals and equity moves that reshape the landscape, such as transactions in pay television and streaming that affect the balance of power between traditional broadcasters and global platforms. His work follows how executives, editors and investors reposition themselves when new ventures launch or established outlets lose key talent, examining the implications for coverage, commercial strength and influence.
Across these stories, he focuses on the strategic logic behind decisions, rather than only the headline numbers, and he draws out how internal politics and external market pressures intersect within large media businesses.
Advertising, platforms and regulation
Jaspan regularly covers the interaction between social platforms, advertisers and regulators, especially where digital distribution collides with rules around harmful or illegal products.
In recent work he has detailed how companies such as TikTok and Meta accepted and later removed large volumes of advertising for illicit tobacco and vaping products, treating the episode as a case study in platform governance and compliance. These stories are framed through a business lens, tracking the money flows behind campaigns, the commercial incentives for platforms to accept risky ads, and the brand and regulatory consequences when those decisions are exposed.
His reporting in this area distinguishes itself by combining granular detail on advertising volumes and spend with clear explanation of the policy context and the enforcement risks facing both media buyers and digital publishers.
Public broadcasters, ratings and influence
Jaspan devotes substantial attention to public broadcasters and their place in the wider media economy, particularly the ABC. He has examined the performance of key radio networks through ratings data, exploring what audience shifts mean for prestige brands and how management responds when flagship services struggle.
His work also follows personnel changes at major current affairs programs, including the departure of senior editors and prominent on-air figures, placing these moves in the context of editorial direction and institutional influence. In broadcast interviews and industry discussions, he analyses the commercial and strategic implications of deals that affect access to premium sports and subscription audiences, connecting those developments back to public and private broadcasters competing for attention and revenue.
This strand of his coverage consistently treats public broadcasting as both a civic institution and a competitive player subject to the same market forces as commercial media.
Sport and expert tipping
Alongside his media beat, Jaspan contributes as an expert tipster, providing analysis and predictions around major AFL fixtures. His work on grand final coverage combines team news, form lines and betting-style tips, distilling complex match-ups into clear calls and margins. These pieces retain the same direct, fact-driven style as his business reporting, emphasising selection decisions, recent performance and tactical trends rather than fan commentary.
The dual focus on media business stories and structured sports tipping gives his byline a distinctive mix of industry analysis and data-minded sport coverage across the mastheads.
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Adrian Black
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Adrian Leung
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