Michael Gawenda knows journalism both as a practioner and pundit. He’s the latest expert in Crikey’s quality journalism project.
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What happens when you extend the idea of public interest to privacy?
There’s an inevitability about the renewed debate over privacy laws. The Australian media is ready for the fight, with complex questions over how any framework would operate.
Keating slams media hypocrisy
University PR flaks buzzed anxiously as Crikey arrived at the University of Melbourne’s Carrillo Gantner Theatre last night to witness Paul Keating wade into the election campaign via a well-researched speech on the media’s notorious allergy to privacy.
Film critic takes aim at his paper: The Age ‘given a lobotomy’
The Age’s flagship film critic Jim Schembri has taken a swipe at the state of journalistic ethics at his employer, suggesting ethical standards have become an “optional extra rather than an ethos”. Patrick McGrath was there for the spray.
Time for The Age to come clean on the fate of archives: Gawenda
Former editor Michael Gawenda wants to know what happened to The Age archives, revealing that when he left in 2004, the archives still existed but were in an appalling state of neglect.
A tale of drinking, driving and bloody idiots
Some nice confected tabloid outrage at the increasingly negative Herald Sun today, with a cover story of a drink driving charge from seven years ago. Compare that to a rather similar drink driving story about the Hun’s own editor.
John Howard on the good, the bad and the well-read
In yesterday’s lecture on ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ of Australia’s media, ex-PM John Howard warned of the importance of a “sceptical” media.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Rudd and China: Hu cares?
Crikey readers on Stern Hu, Xinjiang, Sydney airport and more.
Beecher: Gawenda’s right, Fairfax ruined by incompetence
In his lecture, Michael Gawenda has revealed in public what most insiders have known privately for years — Australia’s premier newspaper publisher was (and largely still is) run by people with no experience of or love for newspapers, writes Eric Beecher.
