Articles by Eleri Harris

Wangaratta has experienced a somewhat unique form of censorship with the banning of a campaign against child sex abuse, Braveheart’s annual White Balloon Day.

Victorian conservation groups have hit back at claims greenies and National Parks are culpable for the severity of the Black Saturday bushfires, blaming logging companies.

The blogosphere was abuzz yesterday with the news that Twitter was regarded by one 15-year-old from London as being for old people. That’s news?

Papua is a media black hole with foreign journalists rarely permitted to report from the province. The true story behind the latest shootings of 29-year-old Australian Drew Grant and security guard Markus Ratealo will probably never be revealed.

Two women are claiming they have developed serious health issues from exposure to the run-off from an open cut mine in their town, and are demanding the Tasmanian government relocate them.

They do things differently over there, but seriously, feeding cocaine to an animated eyeball is supposed to keep the kids off drugs? Well, at least that’s the aim of the “Xperiment” site.

This morning Eleri Harris asked Tony Abbott — Shadow Minister for FAHCSIA and part-time spokesman on all things Catholic — about the politics of lobbying a Pope.

Are the hundreds of people kidnapped by the Taliban each year any less deserving of media black out protection than western journalists like David Rohde?

Skinny Blonde beer have come up with a brilliant, if not completely inappropriate, gimmick for their product: vanishing bikini tops for their beer labels.

Of the 200 staff members at Melbourne’s Mowbray College, 22 are thought to have left or be about to leave the school this year.

Twenty years ago today tanks drove across Tiananmen Square and crushed a student rebellion in China, Crikey resurrects the news archives.

An American Twitter nerd has started a very odd free service for the Twitterati: you send him a tweet and he writes it on a piece of paper and posts it to you. Post-modernism or post-sanity? You decide.

Oral history is always blurry and difficult to adapt to the concrete standards of modern journalism. Perhaps that’s how Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond got into trouble writing for The New Yorker on PNG.

WolframAlpha — is it really the Next Big Thing in online search? Eleri Harris looks at what the pundits are saying.

War, tradies, stirring music… yes, it’s another beer ad.

Last week two governments in two countries on either side of the globe took unprecedented steps to ensure the survival of print journalism.

The cat food story thickens, as a new revelatory email lands.

Oz journo Caroline Overington considers the role of the twittering journo as a comedian. We love you, @overingtonc.

Graduates beware, the stakes are rising in the hunt for employment — at least in journalism.

British tabloid London Evening Standard launched a unique campaign Monday apologising to readers for its “previous behaviour”.

It appears even the holy grail of journalism awards can’t save writers from unemployed destitution.