Journalist Complaints, launched just weeks ago, is an example of citizens taking the monitoring of the media into their own hands, in the absence of an effective regulator.
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Media briefs: CMail’s Bligh blight … balancing 9/11 … papers v World Cup …
In today’s Media Briefs: The Courier’s Bligh blight, Front Page of the Day, media strive to cover 9/11, Fairfax to dodge Rubgy World Cup bans and more …
Media briefs: Nine News apology … CMail outs Thorpie … NotW fallout …
International slip isn’t Limited … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … Courier Mail outs Thorpie … Life lesson for Michele Bachmann: read the small print if “slavery” appears. …
Wankley Awards: Stefanovic ‘sex stance’ in News Ltd state-of-origin wars
There’s nothing like a good state-of-origin war between The Courier Mail and The Daily Telegraph. But when a TV star calls for a fellow employee to withholding bedroom favours from his boss, you know a Wankley is just around the corner.
Newspaper campaigns don’t have much to do with the public
They’re often waged in your name. But are the newspaper campaigns for accountability, justice, recognition and low, low prices really for the public good? For tabloid papers around the country they’re as much about circulation-driving populaism. And at News Limited, awards.
Get out of our lives: when newspaper campaigns become sinister
When does a good old newspaper campaign become something a bit more sinister? Something like “guided democracy”?
Courier Mail watch … JP Morgan’s media fund … Ten’s new Master Chef recipe …
In today’s Media Briefs public trust in the Australian media is among the worst in the world, Ten cooks up a new deal for MasterChef, a teenager jailed in Syria for blogging and more …
Media briefs: Courier Mail in a spin … early Globes picks …
The spin on Hauritz’s sale. Yesterday, The Courier Mail had a scoop on its back page — dumped Test spinner Nathan Hauritz was selling his cricketing wares, resigned, apparently, to never donning the baggy green again: “In a scene both normal and bizarre, there was Australia’s premier spin bowler sitting in front of a cardboard box on […]
Media briefs: Oz TV makers sue Apple … if the Courier readers were PM
The Courier Mail roll out their new election campaign gimmick. Also, Sky’s cameraman is either a Julia Gillard supporter or drunk, and are young journos burning out?
Media briefs: Council conflict for CMail journo? … ABC ops staff wake …
The ABC’s broadcast operations staff held their ‘redundancy wake’ last Monday at a bar in Sydney’s Newtown. Plus, Craig Johnstone, a veteran political reporter at The Courier Mail, has quit to spin for local government and other media tidbits.
News Ltd spelling bee sting: how do you spell ripped off?
News Limited has been accused of copying a grassroots spelling bee website in league with the Queensland Department of Education in an attempt to turn a not-for-profit initiative into a corporate cash cow.
Reader scores a hone run for mistake in The Sunday Male
An email sent to the editor of The Sunday Mail in Brisbane takes aim at branch of the Fourth Estate…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The politics of climate change
Crikey readers weigh in on the climate change debate.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The McPherson LNP preselection candidates revealed
The blog post that got a Courier-Mail subbie sacked, no news probably isn’t good news for Ian Macfarlane, customs staff don’t land on Free Parking, and a tasty tip-off on the McPherson LNP preselection candidates.
In Soviet News Corp, typo edits you
The pot looked rather black after “a doozy of a typo” appeared in the Oz opinion page headline yesterday over the extract of John Hartigan’s speech.
Crikey Says: Kevin 1, Rupert 0
As practising political pragmatists, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister both did something counter-intuitive this week: they openly and deliberately criticised News Limited.
Lacey brothers jailed for shooting: now the post mortem
The Lacey affair has placed Queensland’s criminal justice system under a considerable strain. But somehow the Courier-Mail has taken only a passing interest.
Tips and rumours: Rudd Government buying laptops from Aldi?
The screws must be really tightening in Canberra, if one tipster is to be believed, while another overhears whispers of redundancies at the Courier Mail.
Tips and rumours: Courier Mail evacuated
Courier Mail employees evacuated … Rudd Government’s budget a shambles …
Pauline Hanson: it was not me. I’m suing
“I’ve had enough. The truth is that is not me in those photos.” Pauline Hanson insists that the celebrated weekend nudes were not her, writes Jonathan Green.
Anna Bligh’s cut and paste ministry
This leaked email from The Courier Mail’s Steven Wardill says a lot about the current cut and paste media cycle.
No prejudice at the Courier Mail, just bloody Muslims
Heck, why be offended by a computer game of “modern religious genocide”, asks Irfan Yusuf.
Local identity still matters: Australian news on the web
An analysis of visitor numbers for Australia’s newspaper websites reveals that local identity matters, writes Peter Browne.
ASIC’s investigation into hedge fund collusion a waste of time
ASIC boss, Tony D’Alosio told a Senate Committee Hearing last week that the watchdog will investigate whether hedge funds had colluded to short-sell stocks. The investigation may be a waste of time, writes Adam Schwab.
