This week’s coveted Wankley Award goes to AAP, for a searing investigation into Kevin Rudd’s afternoon tea, which involved a cappuccino and some carefully eaten pastries.
Articles by Ruth Brown 
Wankley Awards: And The Wankley goes to … a cracker story by AAP
The world sees red over Hey Hey’s blackface
Whilst reanimating the fetid corpse of Hey Hey it’s Saturday, the show’s producers decided to also revive some ol’ fashioned 20th century bigotry, by putting on a Minstrel Show. Pundits across the pond didn’t quite see the funny side.
A tale of two tablets
As Apple and Microsoft race to release their own tablet computers and get a foothold in the emerging e-Reader market, new leaks and rumours reveal what each party will be offering.
Where NOT to eat in NSW? There’s an app for that!
The NSW Food Authority has just updated its engrossing (and fairly gross) “Name and Shame” list — outing restaurants and cafes that have breached cleanliness and food handling laws. We taste a few of the highlights.
Yes, they really called it that: Vegemite’s new name unites the internet in contempt
Kraft has finally found a name for its “new version” of Vegemite. And it’s horrible.
Vegemite’s new name unites the internet in contempt
Kraft has finally found a name for its “new” Vegemite — and it’s so horrible, the entire internet has gone into snark meltdown.
In the battle of Johnston vs. Palin, the winner is Vanity Fair
America’s favourite redneck and former-future-son-in-law of Sarah Palin, Levi Johnston, has been making waves in the media with a candid interview for Vanity Fair. But the media is divided over whether his “expose” justice served or just sleaze.
Happy birthday, internets!
Just how does the internet celebrate its 40th birthday? By doing what the internet does best: whingeing about how shit it is.
At Stars and Stripes independent, investigative journalism soldiers on
America’s daily military paper Stars and Stripes has been doing some nice investigative journalism recently on the issue of censorship and embedded journalists in Afghanistan.
AP: enemy of freedom or just misunderstood?
The internet exploded in a storm of indignation with news that the Associated Press plans to digitally track and protect all its online content. But is the AP really the greedy News Nazi it’s being made out to be?
Branding Australian cities: pride of place or pointless PR?
Big news in Melbourne today: Mayor Robert Doyle has spent $240,000 on a new logo for the city. But is it any good? We compare and contrast with other city brands from around this wide brown land.
TIME’s top 25 blogs for 2009: the good, the bad, the inexplicable
TIME magazine has once again ranked named their most and least favourite blogs for the year. We take a look at who made the cut.
Daily Tele serves up a big plate of fail
Keen to scoop all the other news outlets with the story of who won last night’s MasterChef finale, the Daily Telegraph filed their story on it half an hour before the fact — and with the wrong winner.
Not just another story about Twitter. Honest.
Yesterday, one of the world’s most influential journalists decided to publish confidential leaked financial, strategic and planning documents from one of the world’s hottest multi-million dollar companies.
NYT Magazine photo fakery fiasco
Chalk one up for citizen journalism: how an eagle-eyed blogger caught out a New York Times Magazine photographer engaging in some digital trickery.
Xinjiang uprising: will this revolution be tweeted?
Direct tweeting from China on the bloody Uighurs protests has been predictably quiet. Nevertheless, there are some lone voices in the wilderness. We list the journos and bloggers broadcasting 140-character news-bites from the middle kingdom.
Xinjiang riots: a Crikey wrap
Tensions boiled over in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region on Sunday night. We look at what the world’s media is saying about the country’s bloodiest conflict since Tiananmen.
Battle of the new media heavyweights
One month since the launch of News Ltd’s new siteThe Punch and a few months since we relaunched our very own Crikey website, the Australian media commentariat are now dutifully weighing in on who is winning the readership wars.
Republican governor’s Latin loving makes for a sexy story
On Tuesday, US media started to bubble with the story that the Republican governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, had gone missing. Just a wacky little yarn, we thought. And then…
My kingdom for a Choco Pie
North Koreans have developed a taste for South Korea’s most popular bikkie, and it threatens to undermine their whole political structure. Ruth Brown investigates.
Microsoft Bing: will it fizzle or boom?
Microsoft have launched a new search engine in an attempt to rival Google: Bing. But will it be the next great innovation since Windows, or another Microsoft Bob?
Dream over for Susan Boyle
After all the hype, the meltdowns, and the puddings, international media sensation Susan “Hairy Angel” Boyle didn’t actually win Britain’s Got Talent. So what went wrong?
Stuff Americans like
The American Customer Satisfaction Index tracks how happy ‘merkins are with various industries and businesses throughout the year. Guess which one makes them least happy.
Pension v dole: what’s the dollar difference?
Will under-67-year-olds be worse off on the dole instead of the pension? We crunch the numbers.
