Saturday, 9 August 2008
Margaret Simons is a freelance journalist and author. Her book “The Content Makers, Understanding the Media in Australia” was launched by Penguin in September this year.
9/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
We know funding for a digital only children’s television channel is top of the ABC's wishlist, but what else might be announced during the campaign? asks Margaret Simons.
2/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
The entry of Telstra into the election campaign is worrying and even frightening. Even Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch would not have been quite as naked in pushing a self-interested political point of view as Telstra has been over the last few weeks, writes Margaret Simons.
27/09/2007 12:00:00 AM 1
For those who wonder whether the Australian blogosphere and “citizen journalism” will ever make a difference to politics, “CrateGate” – a mini controversy generated on the You Decide 2007 site - is providing some thought provoking material.
18/09/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
Labor’s spokesman for Media and Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy seems to have let slip some details of a central plank of Labor’s forthcoming election campaign in Brisbane last week.
10/09/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
Good on Jason Koutsoukis. He may not be the most polished, experienced, wise or measured of the denizens of the Canberra Press gallery, but in his column in yesterday’s Sunday Age he managed to show something of how the job could – and should – be done.
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