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Media briefs: TV boss quits … AFR closes MIS … Syrian journo death …
In today’s Media Briefs: Southern Star boss quits … Ten bringing back late news: report … AFR closes MIS Magazine … first Western killed in Syrian uprising and more …
Rundle: goodbye 2011, and Knut who died from coke and hookers
Giffords, Zsa Zsa, Giddings, Merkel, ******, Moran, Osama, Obama, Mladic, Joyce, Winehouse, Rupert, Bolt, Hitchens, Kim … and Knut. Your handy reminder of the year that was.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Julian Assange is not a journalist
Crikey readers have their say.
The number crunching that is Iraq is finally done
The whole process had been an imaginary projection of US power in any case — removing the Iraqi people from the picture meant that all attention could be focused on American suffering and the meaning of the war in American life.
Media briefs: Leveson Inquiry latest … Kyle Sandilands saga …
In today’s Media Briefs: latest from the Leveson Inquiry … Kyle Sandilands sorry but not really … NoTW whistleblower died of natural causes … Southern Cross Media announces buyback and more …
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.
Media briefs: Onya Rupe … The West kills Frazier … Age plays ladyboy card …
In today’s Media Briefs: Onya Rupe, for a generous ‘gift of love’ … Ludlam and the News-employed Marxist … It’s OK, Gillard’s not a head of state and more …
Labor Senator brands Daily Tele’s Rudd front page a red herring
Labor Senator Doug Cameron has accused Daily Telegraph editor Paul Whittaker of beating up a fake front page story on Kevin Rudd’s return to the leadership to distract from claims he used Australian lives as bargaining chips during an anti-terror raid.
Media briefs: Jones highlights … angry Coast paper … bleak outlook for Hungry Beast …
Despite claims The Times now has 110,000 paying customers, News International confirmed overnight that around 120 journalists jobs would go from the paper. Plus other media news of the day.
The quality journalism project: iconic Ita Buttrose
Is there anything in journalism that Ita Buttrose hasn’t done?
Media briefs: Cutting The Monthly … violence in Egypt …
Across the inner cities of the world, goes out the cry these days — has The Guardian completely lost the plot? That’s due to rising prices and making the paper a crowd sourced affair. Plus, other media news of the day.
Remembering Steve Jobs: iSad, iMourn, iLife …
Crikey media wrap: Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away this week but his legacy — and incredible collection of inventions, from iPods to viable home computers and the technology behind Toy Story — lives on.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Andrew Bolt and holding journalism to acount
Crikey readers have their say.
Media briefs: Dwarfed by old news … CMail on hair … Wilkins on Goldblum …
In today’s Media Briefs: old news dwarfs real news for News.com.au … Front Page of the Day … Meanwhile, in Alice Springs … Richard Wilkins on why he reported the death of Jeff Goldblum and more …
The logic of an inquiry into a media model under siege
The media inquiry is less an attack on freedom of speech than a search a solution to the basic problem of the newspaper model. Good luck fixing it.
Media briefs: 4 Corners on NotW … Mamamia context …
Last night’s Four Corners revealed further details on the widespread nature of the phone hacking at News of the World. Plus, Mia Freedman’s latest column misses some crucial facts…
The link between the Thomson fiasco and Feeney’s fading bid to hold his seat
Two newspapers, two stories, same source of conflict. Amazingly no-one has yet drawn the link between the bitter brawl that consumed the now defunct Victorian Health Services Union’s number 1 branch in 2009, the Craig Thomson fiasco and David Feeney’s fading bid to hold his seat in federal parliament.
Why the campaign against anonymity is an attack on free speech
There’s a growing campaign against online anonymity from governments, corporations and even the media. It’s dangerous.
Press Council shakes ‘poodle’ tag with new suicide reporting standard
The new suicide standard will lead to some changes in standard newsroom practice, where for years the general rule has been that suicides are not reported at all.
What if a newspaper died and nobody cared?
So commodified is the news business that from a consumers’ perspective, a closed newspaper is more like a brand of chewing gum that’s disappeared, to be easily substituted for another brand, writes Jonathon Oake, of blog The Spongeist.
Media briefs: Jones v Media Watch … emails deleted in NotW scandal …
Who watches Media Watch? More Sydney viewers than listen to Alan Jones. Plus, the front page of the day and other media news.
Privacy Eye: media shouldn’t fear debate on privacy laws
The federal government’s decision to initiate a debate on privacy laws has provoked some typically premature condemnation from some sections of the media, writes Michael Smith, former editor of The Age.
News Corp scandal: a handy guide to the week that was
In an attempt to help you — and us — get our brains around this mess, here’s a breakdown of the week that was for News of the World, in more or less chronological order:
