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Wankley Awards: And The Wankley goes to … a cracker story by AAP

This week’s coveted Wankley Award goes to AAP, for a searing investigation into Kevin Rudd’s afternoon tea, which involved a cappuccino and some carefully eaten pastries.

How a drunken prank became a major political story with flare

How a minor drunken prank escalated into a major Tasmanian political story may be as good as topic as any to kick off the journalists union’s Future of Journalism forum in Hobart on Thursday night, writes Bob Burton.

AAP mines Facebook for the dead

Privacy isn’t what it used to be. Even in death, writes Neil Walker.

Media briefs: AP journos withhold bylines… China reboots internet blocks…

AP journos withhold bylines… China reboots internet blocks… British TV audiences to experience Australia torture… The Times gets boozy… Bancrofts as dysfunctional as Murdochs…

Media briefs: Roasts at Ramsey farewell … AAP hires a firer

A craven cur … AAP hiring someone to do their dirty work … Foreign journos bashed in China … The news on the Wal-mart death … Cutting back on anchors.

Media briefs: AAP wields the axe, UK papers unite

The Vine goes out on a limb … local content king … Microsoft/Yahoo deal a dud

Reuters disappears from Australian newspapers

There’s been something different about the ‘world’ section of your newspaper over the last month, writes Eleri Harris.

‘I will decide who leads the Liberal Party and under what terms I lead it’

John Howard has reversed his Prime Ministerial exit strategy. For seven years, the PM has stressed that his leadership of the Liberal Party will come to an end when his colleagues no longer support him in that role, but it didn’t turn out that way. How could we have got it so wrong?