There has been a dust-up in the past few months about an attempt by the Department of Immigration to force media organisations to give bureaucrats the right to edit their reports in return for access to detention centres.
MEAA
Media inquiry: MEAA wants one-stop shop for complaints
The journalists’ union has advocated the establishment of a “one-stop shop” for complaints against news organisations, covering broadcast, print and online media.
Media inquiry: big winner is the Press Council
The new inquiry is certainly messy in conception, and nobody really has any idea as to how it will do its work.
My Cup Of Tea: Get your Aussie on: defining the authenticity of Australian actors
Australian screen production is still a closed shop and Aussie actors are fighting to keep it that way.
Expanded shield laws are fair, but problems remain for journos
Journalism academics and the union have backed source protection for bloggers and other citizen journalists, rejecting concerns Labor’s shield laws legislation will weaken the policy objective they’re designed to serve, writes Crikey intern Rhiana Whitson.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Golf club poll: Morrison’s a d*ckhead
Crikey readers have their say.
Sub-hub hubbub as staff braces for mind-numbing NewsCentral
Sydney-based News Limited staff are bracing for the worst following the botched implementation of the company’s controversial NewsCentral subbing arrangements.
Media briefs: Paper scoops rival … Skype is dead! …
Journos’ union the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance may have been hacked. Plus
NT News is tombstone territory for the dying art of subbing
The Northern Territory News is mourning the departure of 10 sub-editorial staff, following an internal restructure that will see the paper’s main subbing function shifted to the SA headquarters of the Adelaide Advertiser.
Exxon, the Walkleys and the abyss
Chris Warren is kidding himself if he thinks forming a relationship with an ethically challenged company such as Exxon won’t damage MEAA or the Walkleys’ public reputation, writes Julie Macken, MEAA member, Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Journalists in bed with Exxon — it’s a marriage that needs a divorce
The MEAA’s move ito join forces with Exxon Mobil is offensive and a conflict of interest for its members, writes Australian Centre for Independent Journalism director Wendy Bacon.
Former sub-editors battle The Age for back pay
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.
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.
