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.
Articles by Ruth Brown 
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.
Tamil Tigers lay down their arms
With the dust still settling on the small patch of blood-soaked ground of Sri Lanka’s north-eastern coast where the Tigers saw their final stand, the world’s media descends.
Matthew Johns: what happened and what people are saying about it
The NRL has been marred by bad press over players’ sexual misconduct for years, but the issue is perhaps only now getting the scrutiny it deserves. Ruth Brown canvasses the history — and reaction.
Crikey web original 2009 Logie Awards: Critics evict Gretel
Lame jokes, bad musical numbers, coked-out soap stars, confused and horrified American celebrities: it’s the Logies and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Obama at 100: how the pundits see it
US President Barack Obama has officially hit 100 days in office. We take a look at how the pundits are grading his performance thus far.
SA Attorney General throws down the gauntlet to gamers
Last week, SA Attorney General Michael Atkinson laid down a challenge to Australian gamers: If you want R18+ video games, run against me at the next election, writes Ruth Brown.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… sh-t-storm in a tea cup
It came as quite the shock to reporters nation-wide when their virgin ears were assaulted by Kevin Rudd’s foul-mouthed proclamation that politicians might be engaged in a “political sh-t-storm”, writes Ruth Brown.
Pepsi’s ‘breathtaking’ marketing w-nk
The company behind Pepsi’s widely-panned new logo scale new heights of marketing w-nk, writes Ruth Brown.
Crikey Clarifier: What is Twitter and why do I keep reading about it?
Twitter. It’s everywhere and journalists just won’t shut up about it. Let us try to explain.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… heatwave hysteria
This week’s Wankley award goes to media organisations for their ridiculously over-the-top weather coverage, writes Ruth Brown.
Google lays in the boot over carbon footprint
If there’s one thing worse than journalists simply regurgitating figures from a press release, it’s journalists trying to do figures themselves, writes Ruth Brown.
The carbon footprint of lazy journalism
Think of all the carbon emissions that are saved by lazy editors and journalists who don’t bother fact-checking PR, writes Ruth Brown.
