The Global Mail opened its coverage of Australian arts on Monday with a curious piece from Stephen Crittenden about theatre blogging. Online writers haven’t stopped talking about it since.
Media / Print
Latest circulation figures: read all about it … or not
The latest 2011 circulation figures indicate that it was a mixed-to-good December quarter for some titles, an average half-year for others and another miserable 12 months for the majority of newspapers and magazines.
Statistics and damn lies: online job ads
There are two problems with this good news story: trend data, and data integrity, writes Michael Overell, on the RecruitLoop blog
Arts life after money: has the Australia Council ‘lost the plot’?
What happens when an arts organisation suddenly loses funding? For two small arts organisations that have recently lost their cash, after the crisis comes resilience.
NotW: the latest from the Levenson Inquiry
Heather Mills, the editor of the Daily Mail and a PR veteran all fronted up to the Levenson Inquiry on its 40th day of investigating phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
Fairfax’s new social network for media comment
In a new move for digital journalism in Australia, Fairfax Media today launched its invitation-only portal for politicians and interest groups to share quotes, documents and photos to be used in news articles.
Brooker: Daily Mail has become ‘a chimps’ tea party of the damned’
In addition to endlessly pumping out frothy puff pieces the Daily Mail, now the world’s most popular news website, has spectacularly turned on its own readers, says Charlie Brooker.
New Kid on the Block: Journalist Complaints? Get it off your chest
Journalist Complaints, launched just weeks ago, is an example of citizens taking the monitoring of the media into their own hands, in the absence of an effective regulator.
Fact checking New Yorker cartoons
The New Yorker is famous for fact checking and its quirky cartoons. But are cartoons fact checked? Absolutely, says cartoon editor Robert Mankoff.
Adjectives v nouns in Fin Review ‘blacks’ debate
The Fin Review’s new ed Michael Stutchbury thought it was fine to use the word ‘blacks’ in a headline, citing the ABC’s “black deaths in custody” series. But they are not the same kind of, writes linguist Greg Dickson.
Can the media call indigenous Australians ‘blacks’?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, aborigines, Indigenous Australians: it can be difficult for media organisations to know what terms are appropriate when writing stories about Australia’s first inhabitants.
Rinehart won’t find a Fairfax
megaphone
Gina Rinehart is likely to find investing in Fairfax Media a deeply frustrating experience, whether she’s trying to influence the newspapers or just make money.
Stop the press: misleading climate change op-ed in WSJ
What’s news these days when it comes to climate change? asks Graham Readfearn, a freelance journalist.
The waters of Data Pool 3 may yet swallow Rupert himself
The scandal that continues to swell around Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the United Kingdom features all the trappings of a flood that keeps breaking through hastily built barriers to wreak new inundations, writes David Ritter from London.
Helen Liu v The Age: could management end up in the clink?
One of the most important media law cases of recent decades will be decided tomorrow when Justice Lucy McCallum of the New South Wales Supreme Court hands finally hands down judgement in the case of businesswoman Helen Liu against The Age.
Scientists need to back off and let journos do their job
Scientists often complain about the bad rap they get in the media. But there’s good reasons that journalists report science stories in the way they do. Ananyo Bhattacharya from Nature magazine outlines nine of them.
News Ltd moves: Williams’ ‘strong response’ to protect Whittaker
The material concerning Paul Whittaker came to me from a person who would normally be referred to as an impeccable source.
News settles phone-hacking payouts, but story still has legs
Any hope that paying out big money will help end the trouble is surely misplaced.
The chilling price of a catchy headline
Earlier this month The Herald Sun went to town on a Melbourne social worker who stabbed himself to gain street cred. This week he was found dead in his car from an apparent drug overdose, writes Mike Stuchbery.
What Julia Gillard can learn from the pages of Playboy
Julia Gillard would be well advised to seek out an edition of this month’s Playboy. If approached with open eyes an article by Joshua Pollack has the capacity to recast the Australia-India relationship, writes NAJ Taylor.
Megaphones watch: Alan Jones speaks out on gay rights and more
The Power Index’s Matthew Knott presents what Australia’s most powerful Megaphones (including Alan Jones, Miranda Devine and Piers Akerman) have been up to over the silly season.
Sandalgate: and the most gratuitous media reference is …
Today Crikey bestows an old pair of sandals as an award for the most gratuitous media reference to personal appearance.
D Publishing agreement: third time lucky?
A third version of a controversial author contract from self-publishing venture D Publishing has been released but it still has serious problems, writes Bethanie Blanchard.
The SMH leads the way on climate change
Australia was an exception to the downward trend in international media coverage of climate events during 2011. The Sydney Morning Herald led the way, fuelled by stories from journalists such as Lenore Taylor and Adam Morton, reports Richard Farmer.
Australia’s climate change ‘debate’ a fact-free brawl c/o Murdoch media
Gutter press, shock tactics, spin and misinformation characterize the ‘debate’ about climate change in many of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers including its flagship, The Australian, writes Stephan Lewandowsky.
