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Media / Print
The data that shows female writers don’t get a fair run
Bookseller+Publisher collects data on book mentions in Australia’s print media around the country each week, so Matthia Dempsey decided to count all the book reviews done of female-authored books in the last years. The results may surprise you …
‘A writer first and a woman after’: Overland journal’s Women’s Work
Women’s Work is Overland’s new anthology of short stories by emerging female writers launched today as part of International Women’s Day and developed in conjunction with the Stella Prize. Bethanie Blanchard reviews the stories.
Oz editor marshals eagles to halt Manne attack
The Australian’s editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell has threatened to take legal action against the ABC to kill a column penned by Robert Manne and republished on commentary site The Drum.
Fitz pulls the ‘women should be nice’ card
On the weekend a seemingly baffled Peter Fitzsimmons wondered why Julia Gillard and Julie Bishop can’t be nice to each other. After all, they’re women! reports news with nipples.
Employment is growing … but you wouldn’t read about it
The February ANZ job ads survey shows newspapers are becoming irrelevant to job advertising, and are going backwards while the jobs market is growing, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.
Jim Schembri goes after fake people, too
Crikey has been inundated with correspondence following our story on Friday revealing how Age film critic Jim Schembri likes to punk your employer if you bag him on Twitter.
Qld election: is there something more behind the Courier-Mail’s dummy spit?
In one of the most extraordinary media ploys ever undertaken by a mainstream media organisation, the Courier Mail announced it was ripping its reporters off Anna Bligh and Campbell Newman’s campaign buses.
The GOP’s secret weapon: Benjamin Netanyahu
Despite an American political climate being pushed into the wild extremities of the right, conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan still maintains the ability to shock readers, writes W H Chong.
James Murdoch resigns from News
International
Crikey media wrap: As more News of the World hacking claims emerged involving News International staff themselves being targeted, James Murdoch quit his job as executive chairman of News International.
The quality journalism project: the Human Headline
Derryn Hinch courts controversy more than most Aussie journalists. He’s the latest participant in Crikey’s Quality Journalism Project.
Police reveal ‘culture of illegal payments’ at Murdoch’s Sun
Crikey media wrap: The Murdoch-owned UK Sun tabloid is embroiled in an illegal government official payment scandal, the head of police investigations into journalistic behaviour told the Levenson Inquiry.
Rundle: Cherie Blair blocks The Sun‘s Sunday dawn
No sooner had News Corp rallied by announcing the launch of the Sunday edition of The Sun they were back on the defensive, with Cherie Blair announcing she will sue for invasion of privacy.
The rights and wrongs of writers wronged by copyright
This year marks the centenary of Gus O’Donnell, who for years worked to enable Australian writers, including freelance journalists, to be paid photocopy royalties, writes Ava Hubble.
News Limited ‘in crisis’ on newspaper home delivery
There is a crisis gripping News Limited on the future of newspaper home delivery in Australia, writes newsagent Mark Fletcher on the Australian Newsagency Blog.
Memo from Kim Williams: ‘a laser-like focus on our customer needs’
News Limited CEO Kim Williams dispatched this missive to company staff this morning …
Crikey Says: Stacking up job loss headlines against figures
Perhaps it’s best to channel Ross Gittins’ steel trap mind as you confront twin headlines about Qantas layoffs alongside the ABS’s surprise January’s unemployment figures.
Ian Hickie: on Twitter, The Lancet and my critics
It’s not uncommon in my world to be engaged in very lively academic debates, like the risk versus benefits associated with new antidepressant drugs, writes Professor Ian Hickie.
Crikey Says: The Sun will never set on Rupert
There’s just no way Rupert Murdoch would kill his baby, the red top that’s by far and away his best-selling paper, the 10th biggest-selling paper in the world with a whopping 2.7 million in circulation.
My Cup Of Tea: Arts editor shits on theatre blogging, flame war ensues
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.
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.
