Following our teasing, the Herald Sun comes up with some bonus content with which to sell its (ad-supported, $96/year) iPad app: “The week’s best comments” from the Andrew Bolt blog! How wonderful, writes Jeremy Sear.
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Herald Sun caught trying to entrap Victorian MPs
The Herald Sun has been caught red-handed trying to entrap Victorian MPs in an unethical and possibly illegal sting operation just days before the state election.
Crikey Says: Journalism from the gutter
It’s getting harder and harder for journalists to dredge up stories in today’s competitive media environment. That must be why a reporter from the Herald Sun was posing as a developer and a senior citizen under a false name.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… the Cairns Post, not playing hard to get
Oprah’s coming to Oz, haven’t you heard? Excitement is building across the nation, nowhere more than the Cairns Post newsroom which has run a five-day media campaign trying to entice the chat show queen to the north of the Sunshine State.
The Fairfax wage war even the Herald Sun refuses to profit from
Journos’ union the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance is alleging collusion between Australia’s two leading newspaper proprietors after an advertisement spruiking a rally in defence of striking Fairfax hacks was pulled from top-selling Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun in the shadow of its deadline last night.
The AFL and police: a co-op for years, says Guthrie
The Australian Football League and Victoria Police were sharing covert criminal information well before they hatched a secret cooperation deal in 2009, according to former Herald Sun editor-in-chief Bruce Guthrie.
The tell-all book: Oz editor offered to quit, Big Harto gawked at Mrs Garrett
Bruce Guthrie’s Man Bites Murdoch contains a treasure trove of titbits that will have media watchers feverishly scanning the index when it hits bookshops on Wednesday. Here are the the juiciest highlights.
Herald Sun inflates circulation by 100k each day: Guthrie tell-all
The circulation of the nation’s biggest selling tabloid, News Limited’s the Herald Sun, is artificially inflated by up to 100,000 copies per day, according to the paper’s former editor-in-chief Bruce Guthrie. Its one of many revelations on the newspaper industry in Guthrie’s tell-all Man Bites Murdoch.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… power out for Melbourne’s media
The people of New South Wales have a lot to be angry about — a toxic Labor government, a string of knifed premiers, a culture of ministerial incompetence. But why would the Daily Tele would try now to plunge an additional stake into the heart of an already terminal government over electricity prices?
Melbourne media rift over naming the Pies’ accused
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire’s on-air outburst this morning over Neil Mitchell’s decision to name the Collingwood players is threatening to tear a rift in the Melbourne media establishment.
The Pies’ accused: why, this time, hasn’t the media named them?
Collingwood President Eddie McGuire could hardly have foreseen the blizzard of bad PR (read: rape allegations) that has cast a pall over the Pies’ celebrations. The big question is: why haven’t the media named the alleged perpetrators?
Herald Sun beats up on bureaucrats, censors Murdoch comparison
The Herald Sun’s decision to lead off with an attack on public service pay left the paper wide open to charges of hypocrisy.
What if Oprah was Herald Sun Sports Editor?
Today, Olympic champion Usain Bolt is the guest Sports Editor of the Daily Telegraph. Here is Leigh Josey’s brilliant mind tackling the idea of the Herald Sun sports section with Oprah Winfrey as guest editor.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to … the Herald Sun’s Fev ‘charge’ beat-up
It was panic stations at the Southbank offices of the Herald Sun yesterday when its front page Brendan Fevola exclusive was torpedoed by the cops just hours after the little paper appeared on the streets.
Getting your PR stories in the Herald Sun, a How To
It’s well known that over half the news consumed in Australia is PR, as Crikey revealed in March, but sometimes there’s a success story that deserves its own special golf clap.
Crikey Says: Keep the kids out of it
It’s one thing for a gossip rag to roll around in this stuff about Tim Mathieson’s daughter. It’s another thing for the nation’s highest selling newspaper to concoct a story around it.
‘Chief rat’ Waldron could sue over News Storm attacks
Former Melbourne Storm CEO Brian Waldron is closely examining his legal options in the wake of an extraordinary attack launched by News Limited chief John Hartigan through his tabloids over the Storm’s salary cap rorts last week.
Herald Sun gets down to business, cutting coverage as staff walk
What is going on inside the Herald Sun’s once-vaunted business section? The news that four senior staffers are all preparing to up-sticks has left News’ default national business desk scrambling to plug the yawning editorial gap.
Can newspapers afford to snub theatre-goers?
The Sun Herald has followed the lead of the Herald Sun in dropping theatre and arts coverage. But as newspaper readers and revenues dry up, can they really afford to marginalise the large arts-loving audience? asks Jason Whittaker.
Sun Herald joins the Herald Sun in slashing arts coverage
Sydney’s Sun Herald has followed in the footsteps of its rivals at News Limited, sacrificing its high arts and theatre coverage at the star-studded altar of Hollywood gossip.
Media briefs: Fresh cuts at the Hun … the campaign to save the eco-journalist …
A fresh round of cost-cutting at the Herald Sun comes in the midst of a series of other bonings. Plus The Times calls for job cut volunteers, Facebook gets a security update and other media news.
Media briefs: Tweeting the twits … no news at Nine …
One Twitter account reveals in “pearls of wisdom” from Herald Sun readers, some old news at Nine, WSJ in trouble for softball photo and other media news from around the globe.
Guthrie v News: Harto accused of “exaggerated, misremembered” testimony
News Ltd supremo John Hartigan has been accused of uttering deliberate untruths in court this morning, as the $2.7 million unfair dismissal case of former Herald Sun editor-in-chief Bruce Guthrie draws to a close.
Guthrie v News: the truth hurts, as more dirt is dished
There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from the extraordinary proceedings this morning in Bruce Guthrie versus News Limited: somebody’s lying.
Guthrie v News: Big Harto on the Pies and making the Hun ‘intelligent’
News Ltd supremo John Hartigan has given evidence in sacked Herald Sun editor-in-chief Bruce Guthrie’s $2.7 million unfair dismissal trial, offering a fascinating insight into Murdoch’s local bunker.
