Walkley Award-winning former Age legend Bill Birnbauer is on the brink of launching a pioneering Trans-Tasman student journalism portal, with budding hacks to be given a prominent platform exploring international issues in their quest for paid employment.
Australian journalism
The writes and wrongs of election coverage
This morning the nation’s newspapers made their traditional editorial recommendations to readers on who to vote for, endorsing predictably but with decided lack of enthusiasm.
Simons: journalists leading the march into the dark ages
Seems to me that on Saturday, we will be voting blind on many of the issues that matter because nobody has explained them to us, or pressured the parties to state their positions.
Hunger for a story v right to privacy: can the media balance both?
Am I wrong in thinking that there is a change coming in attitudes to the thing that so many in the community regard as an oxymoron: journalism ethics? Paul Keating offered an unassailable argument for sensible privacy legislation.
Spinning the Media: Pre-packaged journalism: just download!
PR companies are now delivering sound bites, interviews and footage straight to the journalist’s desk — and TV and radio news often run them unfiltered and unedited, writes Biwa Kwan.
Spinning the Media: Arts and entertainment — old recycled bits about Nicole Richie
Journalists no longer need to tackle the paparazzi scrum for snippets of Hollywood news, writes Amanda Hoh: they can be found through a simple Google search.
Spinning the media: PR insiders on their ‘return on investment’
The public relations industry has its own term for churnalism: return on investment journalism. Sasha Pavey explains how PR executives have worked the current economic climate to their advantage.
Spinning the Media: Five decades’ experience on the changing role of PR
Ben Sandilands looks the changes in media-PR relationship through the eyes of a reporter who spent 49 years on shipping, aviation and other rounds: the PR person is increasingly the reporter.
Crikey Says: Accountability seems to be a one-way street
It’s no coincidence that the only editor prepared to engage in the debate around Spinning the Media happens to run the only truly vibrant, intelligent newspaper in the country.
Spinning the Media: The editors fire back. Or don’t.
Newspaper editors respond to the results of Crikey’s Spinning the Media study, which found over half of their news is generated by PR.
Chris Mitchell on pervasive PR, press releases, and paywalls
Yesterday, Crikey revealed that over half of Australia’s newspaper stories are driven by PR. Editor-in-chief of The Oz, Chris Mitchell, fires back at the claims.
Political snippets: A+ for real estate
Richard Farmer explores how school league tables are affecting property values in the US. How is your local primary school going to affect your housing price? Also, tell us Australia’s best specialist journalists.
Profile of the playwright as vapid hack
In filling a profile of leading playwright Joanna Murray Smith with all manner of poison,critic Alison Croggon crossed an unfortunate line, writes Peter Craven.
Crikey’s Weekly Wankley Award goes to …
We thought that A Current Affair was a shoe-in for this week’s Wankley Award. And then Andrew Bolt weighed in…
Crikey’s Weekly Wankley Awards: and the lifetime achievement award goes to…
We give you Ray Martin, our first Crikey Wankley Award hall of famer.
And the winner of Crikey’s Wankley Award is …
Introducing the inaugural Crikey Wankley Awards, a weekly event wherein we recognise excrescence in Australian journalism. And what a week it was, writes Jane Nethercote.
The Bulletin: a survivor of war and depression succumbs to private equity
The Bulletin has ceased publication. It survived 128 years through the travails of federation, depression and two world wars. But just a few months in the hands of Venture Capitalists and Australia’s most famous magazine is dead, writes Andrew Dodd.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 27 August, 2007
The curious and conflicted practice of Australian journalism: an occasional series. Who could be better placed than Bulletin editor John Lehmann to steer into print a definitive account of the slow implosion of the once great Nine Network?
