Guardian apologises to its subbies: OK, you’re journalists, tooThe Guardian has retracted the line “journalists and subeditors are not expected to be multilingual” in a recent article, after it presumably caused offense to the paper’s subs. “Subeditors are journalists” said the paper after changing the line to “reporters and subeditors”.
Journalists
Journalism 101: Learn everything from television
Being a journalist is easy. Just watch how cable news programs do it. Spruik dead people a lot, develop ‘ethics’ and then find a hilarious hook for every story.
Journalists are people too
The caricature of reporters as conniving, self-interested louts plays nicely for Hollywood, but in reality, journalists are real people who regularly come face-to-face with catastrophe and tragedy. Is that the untold story?
The internet isn’t killing newspapers, greedy journalists are
Online publications paying disproportionately high journalist salaries are the reason newspapers are dying off, says tech reporter Michael Hickens — and we’re not even worth it.
Essay: All governments lie. The lessons from I.F. Stone
I.F. Stone almost never interviewed a politician, never attended a door stop and never covered an organised media event.. Way to go, writes Noel Turnbull.
newspaper death watch 
Journalism isn’t doomed, just lazy journalists
All that’s doomed in media is the management philosophy of monopolists who could not adapt to world where people, not papers, controlled the narratives of their lives, argues Robert Niles.
Budget takes Australian journalists hostage
Question, why do we have to go all the way to Canberra to be locked up in a room with the budget when most of it is already leaked by the time we get there?? Hey Wayne? Hey?
Why are newspapers exploiting the people they cover?
Journalists complain that Google exploits their content. But if you go by the journalist’s own logic, then the truth is that they are exploiting the newsmakers they cover, argues Mike Masnick.
Media are stabbing in the dark to survive
Media managers are jumping on the bandwagon of every new technological trend that comes their way in an attempt to survive — but will that work without a clear plan of attack?
When journalists become victims
Perhaps journalists might be more ready to listen to and learn from colleagues who’ve been to the other side, writes Melissa Sweet.
Gawenda: journalists move on, disaster remains
Media not only covers an event like the Victorian fires, but in a sense, creates and defines it as well, writes Michael Gawenda.
Media briefs: Lost in translation, The honest advertising exemption
Lost in translation … Media threatened by Anti-Gay advocates … Advertisers out of touch … The honest advertising exemption.
Meanwhile, at The New York Times: layoffs
To the staff…
Simons: What this means for the media
There will now be at least a change in what elements of the national mindset are articulated in the public sphere, and this will mean a change in the networks of media power, writes Margaret Simons.
The King is dead, let’s assassinate the King
And now the worms turn. Perhaps not today – they’re a bit distracted by the Liberal Party rabble – but soon enough. The journalists who have been bagged by Coalition toadies and would-be Liberal candidates as being a bunch of doctrinaire Howard-haters will start to show their true colours, writes Michael Pascoe.
Caroline Overington v. the priggish pontificators
It’s official. Journalists must conduct themselves like funeral directors. Or solicitors in Victorian novels. That’s the wash-up from the Caroline Overington case, writes Christian Kerr.
Overington, Ecuyer and a mess of blurring lines
Now, after a year in which the relationships between sources and journalists have been in the headlines, Caroline Overington, has been pinged for what on the face of it looks like a damningly inappropriate exchange of e-mails with a source - leaving herself open to allegations of trying to influence an election outcome.
The Content Makers: News Ltd is intergalactic
News Limited really is intergalactic in its force, multiplicity and lumbering blindness. It’s a tribal thing. They even marry in. They socialise in, they have circles within circles and regard anyone else as The Enemy in a sort of amicably suspicious way. And, of course, because it’s tribal they’re blind to their own deficiencies.
David Flint: journalism failing the hate test
An effective shield law to protect journalists’ sources would ensure the public would be better informed. The Press Council years ago developed the first coherent proposal for such a law, but only recently did it seem that this might be achieved, writes David Flint.
On the record: ABC editorial policies to change
ABC editorial policies are likely to change to tackle the contentious issue of when journalists should allow sources to speak off the record, writes Margaret Simons.
The value of secrets to pollies and journos
In 1870, the editor of the Chicago Times got his job description down nicely: “It is a newspaper’s duty to print the news, and raise hell.” So it is hard to be sympathetic to Peter Costello’s claims that his now famous dinner was off the record.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 15 August, 2007
Costello’s reported words of petulance are important not because of what the Treasurer said, but because of the decision the journalists involved made not to report it.
How can we ever trust the Canberra Press Gallery?
The question Canberra journalists would like us to be asking today is whether we can trust Peter Costello and his relationship with John Howard. The other urgent question is whether we can trust the Canberra Press Gallery, argues Margaret Simons.
