Articles by Amber Jamieson


Moses is definitely a follower

It’s another Aussie journo Twitter spat, this time between the ABC’s Mark Colvin and Fairfax’s Asher Moses over a rocket ship and showing pictures on the radio.

Stop the press: Barack Obama played golf with a woman!

US news outlets are covering all the big issues in American politics and gender equality, providing blanket coverage of President Barack Obama’s historic golf game — with a woman!

Wankley Awards: Getting your stolen Safran knickers in a twist

Blackface! A crucifixion! Masturbation! This week’s coveted Wankley award goes to the outrage surrounding John Safran’s new show Race Relations before it had even aired. Storm in a teacup, anyone?

Memo to the British Press: "husband" isn’t a dirty word

Gay boy band star Stephen Gately, who married in 2006, died this week. But why doesn’t the media refer to his husband as his husband? The language involving same-sex relationships is a political minefield.

A tsunami of Aussie Aussie Aussie media

If you’re just a headline skimmer, sometimes the only thing you’ll know about a disaster is the Aussie death toll.

Wankley Awards: Daily Tele’s hermaphrodite 
exclusive

The Daily Tele has broken a whopping world exclusive today: South African runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite… maybe someone should tell her?

Sandilands and scandal: is this the tipping point?

Kyle Sandilands has hit the airwaves — and headlines — again with another attention-grabbing stunt. Will the provocative tactics that have made his career also break it?

Howard hits the headlines again

Former PM John Howard is back in the media again, thanks to Paul Kelly’s new book. So what have we learnt? Crikey takes a look at the revelations from Children Overboard to Hating Peter Costello.

Collaboration: is it the future of investigative journalism?

On Sunday, The New York Times published a gripping 13,000 word investigative article on Hurricane Katrina. With a value of $US400,000 could it have been written without the help of not-for-profits?

Kev’s troubled typing: highlights from the PM’s Live Chat

Our new-media loving Prime Minister Kevin Rudd showed himself to be more typing twit than technical top dog in a patchy attempt at a live web chat about climate change today.

Cheney, CIA and Congress: a Crikey wrap

Dick Cheney, ex-Vice President of the Bush administration, is in further strife over claims that he ordered that a CIA counterterrorism program to be kept secret from Congress. Amber Jamieson takes a look at what the media is saying.