In today’s Media Briefs: ABC podcasts: the audience grows … Stevens lands with a thud at Fin … Public trust in media rises but most think government is lying and more …
Australian Financial Review
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.
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 …
The 2011 Crikeys: the best in Australian media
Newspapers hemorrhage readers, broadcast media faces radical change, governments are probing ethics and ownership, yet good (and bad) journalism shines through. We present the Crikeys for Australian media …
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.
Media briefs: Col Allan return? … Hun’s risque Quiz Master … AFR revolution …
Col Allan’s return to earth … Herald Sun’s %#@% of a Quiz Master. … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … AFR launches “revolution” campaign and tells readers: We weren’t good enough …
Media briefs: Stevens to The Oz … Subway to sub … Leveson latest …
Matthew Stevens joins The Australian business exodus to the Australian Financial Review. Plus, an Oz sub with your sub and other media news of the day.
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.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: nothing to see here, folks
For a group of people who expend thousands of working hours each day holding every other industry and public figure to account, the “quality newspaper” industry has a deeply hypocritical view when it comes to its own accountability.
What will Michael Stutchbury bring to the Fin Review?
Staff at ailing national business daily The Australian Financial Review are bracing for a blast of deregulatory fervour following the appointment of The Australian’s Michael Stutchbury as the paper’s editor-in-chief.
Media briefs: Barnaby gets square … Amy from AAMI … phone hacking latest …
We don’t normally quote liberally from pollie press releases, but Barnaby Joyce’s swipe at The Australian Financial Review this morning over its front-page typo is a fair cop. Plus other media news of the day.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: a good news story
It’s old news to say that great, fearless, time consuming, thankless investigative journalism is up against it.
Media briefs: Age’s split farewell … 16-word news …
Word has reached Crikey that a group of well-meaning Age types have organised a shindig for the departing subs, artists and designers, but management have foiled the farewell fiesta. Plus, other media news of the day.
Media briefs: Subs revolt at iPad launch … Facebook’s free AFR … Pakistan journalist found dead
Deputy editor quits The Age … Subs fight taken to Age iPad launch … AFR is free on Facebook … Worst slowdown since medieval times? …
The house bubble is popping, even the AFR agrees
Even the Australian Financial Review appears to have taken an entirely somber view about the Australian residential property sector. It seems to be cool to be a bear.
Clegg back to Fairfax bosom and Gill falls on his sword: all the comings and goings at the Fin Review
In a wholesale shakeup at The Australian Financial Review, News Limited defector Brett Clegg has been formally anointed as incoming CEO of the ailing Financial Review Group less than a year after leaving Fairfax for The Australian. And the paper’s editor, Glenn Burge, has been offered a job elsewhere in the Fairfax empire.
Gill, Burge depart Financial Review
News Limited defector Brett Clegg has been formally announced as CEO of Fairfax’s ailing Financial Review Group, with the paper’s editor, Glenn Burge, set to be moved elsewhere in the Fairfax empire.
Media briefs: The ‘Silent Feet’ letter … new AFR glossy ed …
Letters pages are always full of interesting opinions — that’s what makes them so entertaining. But when a paper offers full-page treatment to a controversial opinion, there are sure to be a few ruffled feathers. Plus, other media news of the day.
Fairfax local pay dispute ignites tension company-wide
Fairfax Media is bracing for a wave of industrial action down the eastern seaboard, with a pay-parity dispute threatening to pull mastheads from letterboxes and engulf The Age and the Australian Financial Review.
Media briefs: Fairfax rules the airwaves … The Fin soars like Eagles
MTR has its work cut out for it, since it’s already slipped in ratings. Plus, Business Spectator’s new thespian, Nine cuts down Telstra and other media news of the day.
Media briefs: Merger of sorts at Qld Newspapers … AFR out to lunch
News Limited is combining some resources within the Bowen Hills bunker. Plus, AFR rips off the Financial Times, Apple challenges Google in ad market and other media news.
Media briefs: The Fin and the ASX … Town Hall number crunching …
Sometimes its hard for a newspaper to tell the difference between hundreds of protesters and hundreds of attendees. Plus, the AFL still doesn’t get it, the twits at Nine News and other media tidbits.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: System waste at Superpartners
Has Australia’s largest superannuation administrator accidentally turned its pockets inside out for a prize lemon? Which architect of the Your Rights @ Work campaign is presiding over a workplace where employees are being bullied? Plus more hot tips from Crikey readers.
Media briefs: Plugging holes at The Fin … latest radio ratings
The turmoil inside Fin Review has been plugged by a spate of new appointments inside the paper. Radio ratings: talk leads in Sydney and Melbourne rival emerges, plus other media news of the day.
Another Fairfax defector: Fin deputy editor to walk to The Oz
Australian Financial Review deputy editor Brett Clegg is poised to abandon the ailing business tabloid and move to The Australian on a $300,000 deal, according to media insiders.
