Leigh Sales


Auntie gives Rupert a helping hand with Punch

Anyone watching the media over the past week might have been tempted to think that there was a war going on between News Limited and the ABC. Except, there is a big gap between rhetoric and reality.

Want to read Leigh Sales diary?

ABC journo Leigh Sales takes a peek into her self absorbed (but with meticulously handwriting!) teenage diary, examining her rants against her dad and the most popular kids in school.

The charms of Spring

Even the media elite are not immune

Newsreader fashion: a Crikey field guide

Have you ever sent forlorn tweets about Ali Moore’s cravat into the ether? Well, feel alone no longer. Mel Campbellprovides a semi-definitive guide to the sartorial language of news and current affairs.

Sales and Colvin cosy up at The Punch

ABC stars Leigh Sales and Mark Colvin have their taxpayer-funded ABC blogs reproduced by commercial rival News Limited on The Punch, in apparent breach of the national broadcaster’s editorial policies.

Gerard Henderson's Media Watch Dog: Tim Palmer channels Tammy Wynette

Henderson hits back at Rundle’s Murdoch/Stalin comparison, Leigh Sales’ climate change coverage, Bob Ellis’ return to ABC Unleashed and more.

Gerard Henderson's Media Watch Dog: In which George Negus sucks up to Lord Stern

Negus does the full fawn; Leigh Sales on Martin Luther’s Doubt and more in this week’s Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch Dog