Does Business News (businessnews.com.au) Provide Data and Insights on Western Australian Companies and People?

Updated

Yes. Business News is described as Western Australia's leading news and data service, and its own article pages show that it tags the organisations and people mentioned in each story. In the example on the site, an article about the City of Perth sacking its chief executive carries a "Related Data & Insights" section and lists "Mentioned Organisations" (City of Perth, Local Governments) and "Mentioned People" (Michelle Reynolds, Bruce Reynolds). That structure is what makes the site usable for tracking specific WA companies and individuals rather than just reading general news.

How the site connects stories to companies and people

Each article page surfaces metadata alongside the reporting:

  • Mentioned Organisations – entities such as City of Perth and Local Governments are listed directly under the article.
  • Mentioned People – named individuals such as Michelle Reynolds and Bruce Reynolds are tagged the same way.
  • Related Data & Insights – a dedicated block that links the story to the site's data layer.
  • Section and recency labels – stories carry a category (Government, Property, Professions, Mining) and a timestamp, so you can see how current a development is.

This means a reader following a particular organisation or executive can move from a news item to the tagged entity and then to related coverage, instead of searching manually.

What the coverage looks like in practice

The homepage and trending sections show the range of WA business topics that get this treatment:

Section Example story Tagged entities
Government City council sacks CEO Michelle Reynolds City of Perth, Local Governments; Michelle Reynolds, Bruce Reynolds
Property $130m Scarborough project approved Build-to-rent development, Scarborough
Property Australia's top builders revealed WA builders, national list
Professions Eve to lead PwC in WA PwC Australia, Justin Eve, Perth
Mining Aurum rattles the tin for $52.5m Aurum Resources, Boundiali gold project, Côte d'Ivoire

The mix of government, property, professional services and mining stories reflects the WA business economy, and the tagging is consistent across them.

Using it to track a company or person

If your goal is to follow a specific WA organisation or executive:

  1. Open an article you already know mentions them.
  2. Check the Mentioned Organisations and Mentioned People lists to confirm the entity is tagged.
  3. Use the Related Data & Insights block to find connected coverage.
  4. Note the section label (Government, Mining, etc.) to narrow future reading.

The site also offers bookmarking ("Save articles for future reference") and a Subscribe option, which the page presents as the way to access saved articles. The FAQ link at /subscribe/faq is the place to check what a subscription includes before committing.

What to keep in mind

  • The tagging is editorial, so a person or company appears only when the newsroom chooses to list them.
  • Data & Insights is presented as a related block on articles; the depth of the underlying data isn't shown on the page itself.
  • Some content sits behind a subscription, so not every tagged item may be fully readable without one.
  • Recency labels ("3 hours ago", "24 min ago") make it easy to judge how fresh a development is, which matters when tracking an ongoing story like a council dismissal.