Articles by Jane Nethercote

James Murdoch this week launched an attack on the BBC, announcing that it’s essential for the “future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it”. So, no free news allowed.

President Obama was right to wade into this racially charged Cambridge police imbroglio and help shape the national discourse about what some people would like to believe is simply an overblown case of mistaken identity, clashing egos and political opportunism, says Marjorie Valbrun.

Nourish your inner child — well more like your inner gawky, slow-blossoming teen — with Crikey’s gratuitous look at what critics make of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

From posting daily specials to responding to guests’ tweet requests on the menu for that night, Twitter is letting restaurants lure customers.

More AFL clubs might change coaches from the start of the ‘09 season to the start of the ‘10 season than we have seen in ages. Scott Shepherd looks at who might be coaching where.

Ronnie Biggs will leave prison next month and spend his final years as a free man in a brand new nursing home funded by the taxpayer. That’s 20 years early.

A Harvard Business School study found that although men and women follow a similar tally of tweeters, men have 15% more followers than women. Typical, writes Jennifer Dudley.

Ad agency TBWA Zurich takes a literal approach to selling EuroPride 2009 festival, taking place next month.

Malcolm Turnbull’s senior adviser has been accused of getting physical with and swearing at a senior Ten journalist.

Who is Sonia Sotomayor? And why did President Obama pick her to replace David Souter on the US Supreme Court bench?

Excess might be what Californians do best but it’s coming back to bite them right about … now.

Law-enforcement officials have been slamming Craigslist’s prostitute ads for years. But CEO Jim Buckmaster hasn’t taken things lying down.

In years to come, psychologists will be writing doctoral theses on the responses by British MPs to the charges of dishonesty in the great allowances scandal of 2009.

Gordon Brown and David Cameron were tonight battling to salvage the reputation of parliament after the MPs’ expenses scandal claimed the first scalps from both major parties.

I won’t weigh in on the debate over the quality of the stress tests themselves, except to repeat what many observers have noted: a rigorous audit it wasn’t, writes Paul Krugman.

Aaron Goldstein enters the competition for most original take on Obama’s 100 days. Includes a poem called All Barack & No Bite

Health officials dealing with swine flu are in a “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” situation.