News Ltd is in the same kind of trouble as Fairfax — a collapsing business model before the new business model has had time to get established.
September, 2011
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Pacific Solution & towing boats back to Indonesia
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: US markets fall but Aussie markets still up
The SFE Futures were up 60 this morning as the US market fell less than expected
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Gillard reaches new lows
Julia Gillard’s Annus Horribilis reached new lows.
Power Shots: female bureaucrat boost … book nerds party … Anderson fights bankruptcy …
Wong’s push to bolster female ranks. Given most companies require their board appointees to have previous board experience, bolstering the number of women in such roles is a difficult ask with female board representation already so low. But it’s a challenge that Senator Penny Wong believes the federal government can help with: by working to […]
Political snippets: Gillard’s pig-headed stance on Nauru
I would have thought ordinary politeness dictated that our neighbour be briefed on what is in the Australian government’s mind.
Video of the Day: How a drought became a humanitarian disaster
Over the past three months, a predicted drought in Somalia became a famine, with an estimated 29,000 children younger than five dying of malnutrition. Time investigates why it happened and what can be done to prevent it happening again.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Melbourne adult education firm takeover. The Centre for Adult Education in Melbourne’s CBD will be taken over by Box Hill TAFE, Crikey understands. The move hasn’t been announced by Education Minister Peter Hall, the CEO, senior management or the board but is known by CAE staff who, according to one, are “waiting for their management […]
Crikey Says: A pretty grim set of numbers
President Obama take the nation through the numbers of his jobs package plan Thursday night (US time) in his address to Congress. In the meantime, the numbers are in on his latest approval rating, and it’s the worst of his presidency.
The life cycle of innovation and invention
All business models rise on the back of innovation and the challenge for companies is to adapt quickly or risk sinking into nostalgia. The same challenge can be extended to consumers too, writes Jonathan Crossfield.
How American magazine covers depicted September 11
How to visually represent the September 11 attacks has been an ongoing challenge for news outlets over the last decade. The Huff Po presents 11 different approaches from a range of mags.
The top ten viral ads of all time
Darth Vader and a Volkswagen. Old Spice on a horse. Britney, Pink and Beyonce as gladiators. These are three of the most watched viral ads ever made. Ad Age compiles the top ten.
Obama hits record low in polls
Barack Obama’s poll numbers have reached an all time low, with an overall approval rating of 44 percent, reports The Telegraph. Still, he’s streets ahead of Julia Gillard…
Mike Baird’s budget BS
In his NSW budget speech, Treasurer Mike Baird claimed New South Wales will “bear the brunt of Labor’s carbon tax.” His comments amount to nothing more than deceptive partisan politics, writes Mr Tiedt.
Eddie Murphy to host the 2012 Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that Eddie Murphy will host next year’s awards night ceremony. It will mark the first time Murphy has performed a live comedy gig since 1987, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Top NotW execs dispute James Murdoch’s evidence
Crikey media wrap: James Murdoch may again have to front the UK inquiry into phone hacking, after former News of the World executives disputed his previous parliamentary evidence.
Ray Hadley: the radio star who helped bring Kevin Rudd undone
Ray Hadley’s rabble-rousing radio show is networked to about 700,000 people across Australia. That’s not so say that everybody loves Raymond, but he couldn’t care less, writes Paul Barry.
Why is the PM so unpopular?
If you were in another country and simply looking at official statistics you would probably assume that ours was a well governed country doing remarkably well. Yet many people are judging this Labor government as the worst one ever, writes Richard Farmer.
Mayne: why the silence on Rupert’s record $US33.3m pay?
News Corporation strategically released a whole bunch of information in the early hours of Saturday morning and the Australian media has chosen to ignore the s-xiest element.
What happened as a result of TPVs and the Pacific Solution?
There’s plenty of data to judge the success of Temporary Protection Visas and the Pacific Solution when we last tried them.
Gloom? Consumers are saving, but they are spending too
Some of the country’s leading economists and business analysts can’t see a boom for the gloom that they are preaching and writing about.
Tassie forests deal like a Gunn to the head
The ultimate peace deal to end the 40-year war in Tasmania’s forests is dead in the water, writes political journalist Bruce Montgomery from Hobart.
