Newspapers hemorrhage readers, broadcast media faces radical change, governments are probing ethics and ownership, yet good (and bad) journalism shines through. We present the Crikeys for Australian media …
Laura Tingle
Doing journalism, and doing it right
The deterioration of the core business model supporting journalism has eroded the quality of news analysis but great writing still emerges. The Failed Estate’s inaugural FEIJOA Awards acknowledges bonza efforts from journos such as Laura Tingle, Hugh Riminton and a couple of Crikey’s own.
The quality journalism project: first up, Laura Tingle
Crikey’s quality journalism project will pick the brains of some of Australia’s most respected journalists, editors and producers to find out what great journalism means to them and where they go to get it. First up is the Australian Financial Review’s political editor Laura Tingle.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: a good news story
It’s old news to say that great, fearless, time consuming, thankless investigative journalism is up against it.
Spokespersons and journalists who hang off every word
The Press Gallery tradition of briefings following party room meetings doesn’t always go according to plan, partly because the Press Gallery is obsessed with trivia and over analysing every word uttered.
Nothing more stimulating than press gallery groupthink
This “debate” of whether the government should withdraw the stimulus package due to the economy’s growth, is run entirely by the press gallery and the Federal Opposition.
Dear John,
The trouble that newspapers now find themselves in is due entirely to a colossal failure of management and leadership over two decades, says former newspaper journo Alan Kohler.
