New Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood and Seek chief Andrew Bassat have entirely different views of the Australian employment classified advertising market. One of them is going to be wrong, says Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.
April, 2011
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Religion in schools
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets up as Aussie Dollar takes off
The Aussie dollar has taken off and now at 107.42c.
Media briefs: Context & Twitter … frugal Fairfax’s TV guide combo …
One TV guide, two days of the week, high school kids write the news with new Age collaboration The Under Age and other media news.
Political snippets: Labor in South Australia
Is the Labor Government of South Australia controlled by the Catholic Right?
Video of the Day: How does Russia’s president dance?
Glorious footage has emerged of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev dancing with a group of friends to a song called American Boy. There’s a lot of robot-style stamping back and forth and weird hip thrusting from the prez.
Crikey Says: Name your poison
We’ve been here before with the “this will be a tough budget” routine from Wayne Swan.
Is ‘exposure’ worth working for free?
A group of freelancers are suing Huffington Post for compensation over past work they did for free. Online publishers — including Crikey — often have writers work for free. Should writers do it?
Libyan war claims lives of two photojournalists
Two American photojournalists, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, were killed in Libya yesterday during clashes with Gaddafi forces. Daily Beast offers a retrospective of their haunting work.
Read library books on your Kindle
Amazon’s Kindle e-reader gets a lot of flack for hurting local booksellers and now 11,000 libraries in the US will soon offer Kindle e-books for short-term lending.
Are women funny? Is John Howard a Liberal?
Another Melbourne International Comedy Festival, another debate over whether females bring the LOLs that the fellas do. You want funny women? Clem Bastow rounds up history’s best of the best.
Polluting power … Australia in the top 10
Australia’s power sector ranks among the 10 most polluting power sectors on the planet, alongside Botswana, Cambodia and Estonia, writes John Connor, CEO of The Climate Institute.
Meet Obama’s mum
Many in the Birther movement focus on the background of Barack Obama’s father, but the life of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is an interesting tale of a young white woman bringing up mixed-race children in the 70s.
Adelaide’s gossip mill in overdrive over MP porn charges
A blanket suppression order covers the identity of a South Australian state Labor MP who has been charged with possessing child p-rnography. But Adelaide is gossiping, and it’s all bad news for Labor, says InDaily editor Des Ryan.
No pimping this ride
An extraordinary story appeared yesterday morning concerning a minor dispute between the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority, and the owner of the personalised numberplate ‘Kiki’, writes Piers Kelly.
Jetstar v fools at Sydney T2
Jetstar’s decision to sue Sydney Airport if necessary for damages arising from yesterday’s security shambles means challenges the political investment in security theatrics in Australia, writes Ben Sandilands.
A personal Anzac journey: finding family in France
To Troy Wilkinson’s, G T C Williams was nothing more than the name of his long dead great-grandmother’s brother. That is, until a pilgrimage to his grave in France made him examine the young soldier’s short life.
Why a tweet’s context is essential
We’ve seen a number of twitter “scandals” recently, all beaten up by the old media by taking it out of context, or pretending it was read by a much larger audience. Why is the context ignored? asks Jeremy Sear.
The Murdoch way: rampant hypocrisy in Scotland
How times have changed in Scotland. Once upon a time The Scottish Sun would never support the SNP. Is this because of the UK Labour Party? Richard Farmer explains.
Deaths in custody: a special Crikey investigationGovernments back away from nuclear projects after Japan crisis
This week two reactors planned for Texas and four in Italy have been shelved or cancelled in what is the most dramatic fallout so far for the industry outside of Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
