Why journalists deserve low pay: interview with Robert PicardChristian Science Monitor editor John Yemma chats to media consultant Robert Picard, who stirred up a bit of controversy with an op-ed in the paper last month entitled “Why journalists deserve low pay”.
July, 2009
Branding Australian cities: pride of place or pointless PR?
Big news in Melbourne today: Mayor Robert Doyle has spent $240,000 on a new logo for the city. But is it any good? We compare and contrast with other city brands from around this wide brown land.
Murray Darling special, Ian Thorpe — our dirty secret, no show in Darwin, film festival fracas
Nine dances its ratings away
The Nine Network continues to give Australian TV viewers turkeys — and it’s not even Christmas yet.
Crikey Says: In bed with Vladimir Putin
Prostitutes, showgirls and now Putins’s four poster — Italian politics is another world.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Guy Rundle, space travel and Jefferson Starship
Crikey readers shoot for the stars with Guy Rundle, stick up for Cafe Lattes, sink the boot into Stilgherrian and more.
Morning Market Report: Wall St’s winning streak comes to an end
Wall Street broke its seven-day winning streak, and closing down 34, while the market closed down 11.
The ACCC is failing to rein in the cartels
the ACCC operates an all care and no responsibility system of law enforcement, writes Sinclair Davidson. They should not simply be able to engage in trial by media and trial by fishing expeditions.
Boeing’s hopes for its Dreamliner are turning into nightmares
The Dreamliner 787 is now in limbo: a family of jets for which there is no first flight date, no flight testing and certification schedule, and no performance parameters for the airlines that ordered them.
The West Australian’s ethics beggar belief
Last Friday, two cadet reporters masqueraded as beggars on the streets of Perth to obtain information for articles published in The West Australian. Is this deception?
Media briefs: Boyle bumps Bama… the business of gossip
Barack Obama is over-shadowed by Susan Boyle, inside the gossip rags, film and TV directors give insider tweets, and more news from the media.
The agony of the Tour de France (and middle-aged cyclists)
While Julius Caesar feared the Ides of March, for those of us lucky enough to live with a cyclist, it is the whole month of July that we dread.
Silvio and scandal: a Crikey timeline
Italian billionaire media tycoon and three-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is no stranger to gaffes and sex scandals. We take a look at some of the Latin lothario’s greatest hits.
Brumby’s big call on the Honourable Member for Ivanhoe
John Brumby’s right faction of the Victorian ALP faces a difficult decison tonight when it decides whether the prolong the career of the Member for Ivanhoe Craig Langdon.
Guy Rundle: What’s happened to the once great state of California?
The largest state economy in the US, and the 15th largest economy in the world in its own right, remains locked in a crisis more typical of a place like Zaire. How did the great bear state get to this impasse?
Foreign power companies didn’t get the memo on CPRS
There’s no interest in tripling or quadrupling the level of assistance to the power sector. But if it was successful, the prime beneficiaries of this multi-billion dollar try-on would be foreign power companies.
To whom it may concern: On second chances
Crikey’s Agony Aunt looks at the right — and wrong — time to give up on someone.
Tips and rumours: Mardi Gras elections headed for drama
Elections for the Board of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras are set t get feisty, Alby Schultz takes a “baronial approach” to rural politics, the greatest job title ever, and more from our terrific team of tipsters.
No fairy floss, no show, for NT kids under income management
Thousands of Aboriginal Territorians, half of whose income is controlled through income quarantining and management, won’t be able to access money through their Basic Cards to get into the Royal Darwin Show this week.
Public servants serve the public interest, period
Public servants have a direct responsibility to act in the public interest in all aspects of their work, writes former public service commissioner Andrew Podger.
Ian Thorpe: Australia’s dirty little secret
In a speech given in London earlier this month, Australian Olympic legend Ian Thorpe dove head first into Australia’s failure to address the problems in indigenous communities.
Murray-Darling: same mess it always was
In the first of a two-part series, Bernard Keane looks at just how little has changed — and how much has been spent — in the fight to save the Murray-Darling Basin.
