Gold coast bulletin


Gould gone, as predicted

Gold Coast Bulletin editor Dean Gould has finally pulled the pin on his media career for an academic sinecure at Griffith University, as flagged by Crikey last December. Townsville Bulletin Peter Gleeson will assume the prime glitter-strip gig.

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”?

Dean Gould wobbling as GC Bulletin editor, successors named

News Limited glitter strip daily the Gold Coast Bulletin is preparing for a purge of its senior ranks as rumours intensify that editor Dean Gould will follow managing director Steve Howard and depart the paper in February.

Media briefs: My Bulletin … the Tele’s spin …

The Gold Coast Bulletin was positively giddy today about the region’s sparkling new “centre of excellence”: a new Myer store. What a surprise that Myer is a major advertiser of the paper! Plus other media news of the day.

Wankley Awards: The Gold Coast Bulletin’s V8 rev-up

As the Gold Coast spiv community struggles to rev-up the hyperbole ahead of the Gold Coast 600 V8 race this weekend, the biggest story of all appears to have been ignored by the glitter strip’s sole daily newspaper.

Staerk reality is the column is cut; the revamped Bulletin fails to fire

The Gold Coast Bulletin is in turmoil after leading lobbyist-turned-columnist Graham Staerk’s column conspicuously failed to appear last Friday after litany of undeclared conflicts of interest unveiled by Crikey.

Gold Coast Bulletin readers left in the dark over lobbying disclosure

For Graham Staerk — a registered lobbyist with a number of high-profile clients — his Gold Coast Bulletin column is the perfect platform to plug clients and present his credentials for future lobbying work.

Crikey Says: Poor Packer has had a gutful this morning

It was fat puns aplenty at News Limited this morning, with lots of unflattering photos running of rival media mogul James Packer. What point were they trying to make exactly?

Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Tighten the purse strings, while we nip off to Phuket

Which company’s senior leadership team is about to jet off for a “strategy session” in Thailand, while all other staff have been told to cut costs wherever possible?

How the media menaced Dennis Ferguson

We ought to think seriously about abolishing jury trials in Australia altogether, writes Greg Barns.