Mark Latham has re-engaged in his slanging match with News Limited after what he calls “premeditated” attack by The Sunday Telegraph that framed him as an elderly women hater.
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Our Harto and soul: tributes from News staff to departing chief
When John Hartigan quit News Limited to start his new life, dutiful employees presented him with a special memento. Crikey has the special edition newspaper.
The website Fairfax never owned
All seemed to be going swimmingly when Fairfax Media issued its annual report a few months back, except the glossy 128-page paean to CEO Greg Hywood’s savvy managerial skills claimed it owned regional newspapers it doesn’t.
Rundle's ruminations: The war decade, the Enlightenment armed, and 101 uses for a dead Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens was a well-known journalist, based in the US, and quite the bon vivant, or so I hear! He died last week. Perhaps some of you knew this already.
The Age raid: just who is the victim and what is the crime?
There are several significant things about this week’s police raid of The Age headquarters. First, it demonstrates one of the several weaknesses in shield laws.
Simons: the paywall at The Fin and what defines a revolution
People like to talk about first mover advantages, but sometimes being first can be a disadvantage. As in, brave experiment and at best partial success.
Time Person of the Year is … too many to mention
This year was a year of protest — from Wall Street to the Arab Spring — and, as such, Time magazine has chosen to not honour any sole identifiable individual. If there is one thing that Time loves more than the anti-hero it’s the collective and/or inanimate.
The Canberra reshuffle … at Fairfax
Stressed Fairfax hacks holed up in the warrens of Parliament House are dreading their return from holidays in January when they will be confronted with a new tri-masthead “Canberra bureau” dreamt up by new national managing editor Mark Baker.
Guy Rundle: An unusual twist in the NotW phone-hacking tale
The Leveson inquiry into the UK print media has taken an unusual turn.
New Kid on the Block: The Wall … or the walled wide web
One Australian new media start-up is using sophisticated software to trawl tweets, and from that constructs a media outlet more or less automatically, featuring the things we are all talking about. Meet The Wall.
Strong-arm response from The Oz against claims of ‘being used’
All eyes were trained on how The Australian this morning would react to the extraordinary spray dished out against it by outgoing Office of Police Integrity director Michael Strong on Jon Faine yesterday.
The quality journalism project: the economics of Ross Gittins
If you’re looking for rational economic analysis, Ross Gittins’ columns are a safe bet. He’s the latest respondent in Crikey’s quality journalism project.
The Power Index 
Media maestro Morry Schwartz
His Quarterly Essay and The Monthly magazine are the most powerful left-wing voices in Australia. Paul Barry profiles publisher — and property tycoon — Morry Schwartz.
Journalism, Fairfax’s ‘rivers of gold’ and an inconvenient truth
Journalism is at the heart of Fairfax Media’s plans for the future, CEO Greg Hywood proclaims, and he deserves credit for doing so.
The Spy Files, where power is visible (and that’s a good thing)
Newspapers and other mainstream media organisations are incapable of guaranteeing confidentiality, no matter what claims they make to their sources.
scoop Matthew Stevens joins Oz business exodus to Fin
The Australian’s business section is mourning the loss of another high-profile hack after Matthew Stevens jumped ship to bitter national rival The Australian Financial Review.
Regional papers bite the dust, unable to change as tide continues to turn
NSW mastheads The Tweed Daily News and The Coffs Coast Advocate have folded, leaving their journos jobless. The region will be worse without them but the simple fact is they weren’t able to change with the times, writes journogirl.
Canberra Times facing down a tabloid future?
Canberra Times management are knuckling down to develop a strategy to preserve the storied broadsheet in its current form as circulation and profit plummets.
New Kid on the Block: The King’s Tribune
The King’s Tribune: “What would happen if The Onion and The Monthly got together in a bar.” Crikey begins a look at media start-ups.
NW’s obsession with putting women down
Unflattering photographs, gross exaggerations, phoney quotes…Women are the key demographic of NW magazine, so why is it so intent on putting them down? asks News with Nipples.
Guy Rundle: Sienna Miller stars with winning Leveson performance
Down to the Royal Courts of Justice again, those bizarre fairytale towers in the middle of the Strand, their gravitas all gone the moment you learn they were created in the 19th century, the modern state wrapping itself in ancient stone.
Climategate II: 5000+ new emails released sparking climate conspiracy despite evidence
Reminiscent of the ridiculous “Climategate” scandal, over 5000 hacked emails from climate scientists have been leaked just weeks before the crucial UN climate negotiations in Durban, writes Amber Jamieson.
Flannery: Hadley concocted story on my waterside home
Of all the responses to Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay on The Australian it is the letter from Tim Flannery published in the latest edition that adds the juiciest grist to the mill.
Newspaper Death Watch: APN shutters two key dailies
Yesterday, regional publisher APN announced that paid editions of two long-standing titles — the Tweed Daily News and the Coffs Coast Advocate — would vanish during the week.
The Leveson Inquiry: phone hacking, Milly Dowler and Hugh Grant
Crikey media wrap: Actor Hugh Grant and the parents of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler spoke of their experiences with News of the World phone hacking and dodgy press ethics to the Leveson Inquiry overnight.
