Past and present subs at The Age have launched legal action after learning that they have been underpaid for the last ten years. That’s a pretty major mistake.
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Twitter’s unethical, according to the AFR’s new code
Staff at the Australian Financial Review are being asked to sign up to an ethics policy under which they could be disciplined — even sacked — for taking part in political debates.
Australian actors call cut on overseas ads
Actors in the Media Arts and Entertainment Alliance are striking on overseas commercials being shot locally, after the Screen Producers Association of Australia terminated its rates and conditions agreement. Although, as the SPAA wryly noted: “You cannot strike if you are not employed.”
Shutter snaps on photographers at The Australian
Over the last fortnight The Australian has retrenched at least six of its most senior photographers.
News Ltd features enter a brave new — centralised — world
The restructure of News Limited’s tabloid feature sections reveals the industry is reliant on centralisation, as well as further job cuts and the loss of local content, in its efforts to reinvent itself.
World Press Freedom Day: Australian needs to lift its game
On Monday, we mark World Press Freedom Day, which should give us pause this year as we reflect on how precious freedom of expression can be, and how easily it can be denied, writes Chris Warren.
Aunty’s Logies extras short-changed
Channel Nine appears to have followed Fairfax’s bad example in not paying actors for a upcoming Logies segment to be screened on your ABC, writes Andrew Crook.
Fairfax goes for the unpaid underbelly of Australian acting
The local film industry is notoriously frugal when it comes to paying proper wages, but it seems Fairfax Digital hoped to go one better, writes Andrew Crook.
ABC staff hit by global financial crisis?
The ABC has withdrawn a 4% pay increase offer made to staff, citing a “dramatic change to economic conditions”, writes Margaret Simons.
The press must be allowed into Gaza
It’s rather difficult to check the facts when you are not allowed close to the events, writes Christopher Warren.
Softly-softly redundancies come to News Limited
It is a case of when, not if, as the business model that has supported journalists all these years not-so-slowly collapses, writes Margaret Simons.
Fairfax to slash 5% of full time workforce
Fairfax announced this morning that the company is embarking on a “major restructure” — specifically, they’re set to slash 5%, or 550 heads, from their full time staff, reports Sophie Black.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
One could be forgiven for thinking, on the abundant international evidence, that newspapers are in something of a pickle. But not in Oz.
Tips and rumours
They’re not a happy bunch at Fairfax’s Bendigo Advertiser. Recently, the MEAA announced it had discovered reporters had not been paid penalty rates for evening and weekend shifts for the past few years. General Manager Peter Dehnert’s response: “We must have overlooked it”. But it’s not just non-editorial management… recently appointed editor Peter Kennedy (three-time […]
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Toohey’s Walkley dummy spit: a stunt
Rumblings up north. The reporters are fighting. But are there grave issues of journalistic principal at stake, or is it more a matter of political posturing in the public eye? Margaret Simons writes.
Fairfax’s failed “witch-hunt” leads to an apology
Fairfax has apologised to journalist Gerard Noonan after after accusing him of leaking photos of a decorating error, writes Thomas Hunter. But has it raised more questions than it answered?
