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  • Crikey Says: Clash of the media titans at Media140

    Crikey / 0

    A certain slack-jawed wonderment ran around the room at yesterday’s Media140 conference in Sydney, when a senior News Ltd journalist rose to spruik the vested corporate interests of her employer…

  • Why I quit my job as a national newspaper editor to be a blogger

    Media Bistro

    Why would any self-respecting journo leave their job as an editor at one of the US’s largest national newspapers, the LA Times to work for media gossip site Gawker? To be part of the nation’s “cultural conversation”.

  • Stilgherrian: What do journos do better, exactly?

    Stilgherrian

    The “bloggers vs. journalists” debate is stupid, says Stilgherrian: of course journalists are better at journalism — they’re the ones doing it. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other important roles people can play in the broader media community.

Online

  • From stone throwing kids to online activists: the e-Palestine movement

    Time

    Palestinians have figured out one the most effective methods of mobilising the youth: bringing their activism online. They foster an international diaspora and avoid the traditional Hamas and Fatah tensions and talk in chat rooms. Can they mimic the success of Obama’s online campaign?

Print

  • Why Murdoch wants to destroy the NY Times

    Newser

    News Corp’s Wall Street Journal is stepping-up its New York coverage, and it’s all part of Rupert Murdoch’s single-minded plan to strike a massive blow against the liberal world by buying-out or destroying the NYT, says Michael Wolff.

  • Why newspapers act like political parties

    The Guardian

    British PM Gordon Brown has hit out at The Sun newspaper for trying to “become a political party”. Where has Gordon Brown been living all his life? asks Roy Greenslade: newspapers have been acting like political parties for more than a century.

  • Stephen King writes poetry? For Playboy?!

    The Guardian

    Curiously, sci-fi/horror Author Stephen King has turned his hand to writing poetry. Even more curiously, his literary medium of choice to share his rhyme doggerel with the world? Playboy magazine. Read his effort, The Bone Church, here.

The Ad Business

  • Web ads: a watcher’s guide

    Vanity Fair

    Push-downs, troll ads, blogger endorsements and the Hulk — they’re all new and different ways advertisers and webmasters are trying to catch your eye (and clicks) online, to generate more (or any) money from the web.

  • Can Coco Pops protect you from swine flu?

    USA Today

    Cereal giant Kellogg is in trouble in the US for emblazoning “Now helps support your child’s IMMUNITY” across the front of its Cocoa Krispies (that’s Coco Pops to you, skip) packets, amid the country’s swine flu hysteria. Can the company convince the courts the claims are medically sound?

TV & Radio

  • 40 years of Sesame Street

    CNN

    Sesame Street is 40 years old today, and still going strong. Naturally, this milestone for a show half the world grew up with has sparked a flood of memories. Amongst them, CSM shares 11 of its favourite clips, and NY Mag maps out the show’s real New York locations.

  • The ABC needs a Pacific Solution

    Crikey / Bernard Keane / 3

    Mark Scott is pitching for a dramatic expansion in the ABC’s international presence, but Australia just isn’t enough of a cultural heavyweight to compete with America or the UK. Why not focus on the Pacific region, where we actually have some cultural credibility?

  • Sesame Street vs. Fox News

    Mediaite

    Is Sesame Street anti-Fox? That’s what conservative pundits reckon, but as Mediaite point out, it’s more like the other way around, with Fox taking several stabs at the beloved kids’ show over the years.