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Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Bob Brown has joined an army of concerned Tasmanian community leaders to express outrage at plans to edit The Mercury in Melbourne, writes Lindsay Tuffin of the Tasmanian Times.
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Friday, 1 April 2011
Reporters, photographers and subeditors at The Mercury are seething at plans to export Tasmanian subediting jobs to Melbourne and edit the state’s major newspaper interstate. Lindsay Tuffin, a former News Ltd journalist, reports.
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Monday, 15 March 2010
Hobart Mercury editor Garry Bailey responds to our Spinning The Media study findings that many of the articles analysed in his paper were initiated by public relations.
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010
“Senior Labor Party figures” have been peddling unsubstantiated claims about Greens leader Nick McKim’s political future, says Bob Burton. Why is the Mercury granting them anonymity for such an obvious beat-up?
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009
How a minor drunken prank escalated into a major Tasmanian political story may be as good as topic as any to kick off the journalists union’s Future of Journalism forum in Hobart on Thursday night, writes Bob Burton.
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Friday, 28 September 2007
Without much fanfare a few weeks ago Steve Lewis moved from being the Chief Political Correspondent of The Australian and became the national political correspondent appearing in all the Murdoch tabloids. As such he is perhaps now in a position to be the most powerful political journalist in the country, writes Richard Farmer.
Why is Fairfax granting anonymity for a Labor Party beat-up?
