After carving out an illustrious career on TV and radio, Monica Attard is going digital with the upcoming launch of her news site The Global Mail. She’s the latest subject in Crikey’s quality journalism project.
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The quality journalism project: behind the mike, with Mike Carlton
Mike Carlton might be considered an ideological warrior by some, but he’s had an illustrious career as a broadcaster on both radio and television, a foreign correspondent and a newspaper columnist. He’s the latest respondent in Crikey’s quality journalism project.
Media inquiry: why we need greater self-regulation than US, UK
Australia has a greater need for a robust and effective system of media self-regulation, writes Michael Smith, former Fairfax editor and former member of the Australian Press Council.
The quality journalism project: Switzer the Spectator
Editor Tom Switzer is one of TV’s favourite conservative talking heads. He’s close with former PM John Howard and was a former adviser to opposition leader Brendan Nelson. But what does Switzer read and listen to on a daily basis?
The quality journalism project: the battle for New Matilda
Can quality journalism and reporting work online? Is it sustainable? Both questions make this week’s quality journalism expert, Marni Cordell from New Matilda, particularly relevant.
The logic of an inquiry into a media model under siege
The media inquiry is less an attack on freedom of speech than a search a solution to the basic problem of the newspaper model. Good luck fixing it.
The quality journalism project: it’s Mega!
George Megalogenis is a popular man, judging by the plethora of nominations we received to have him involved in Crikey’s quality journalism project.
The quality journalism project: the trusted man with the mo, George Negus
George Negus has written a pile of books, interviewed world leaders and pop stars and hosted a swag of shows — including 6.30 with George Negus. But what does he like to read and watch?
Beecher: govt funding could stem loss of serious newspapers
What kind of democracy would we live in if it didn’t include the work of a thousand-or-so newspaper reporters and editors?
The quality journalism project: @Colvinius, king of the tweets
Every weekday afternoon, Mark Colvin wraps up the day that was as host of ABC’s PM. This week, he’s the latest expert in Crikey’s quality journalism project.
The quality journalism project: investigating Wendy Bacon
Walkley award-winning journalist Wendy Bacon has examined official corruption in NSW, miscarriages of justice, police corruption, indigenous issues, environmental issues and a plethora of other topics in her several decades as an investigative journalist. But what does she think is a good story?
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.
Good week for journalism? There’s good news and bad news
I thought I’d riff a little on the question of whether this has been a good or bad week for journalism.
Quality journalism will bloom online
In my view the internet provides the opportunity for the rebirth of this kind of journalism, not its death.
Peter Costello: My Part In His Downfall, by Glenn Milne
Glenn Milne’s latest re-telling of the story behind the story behind the story of the Howard-Costello agreement shows up some of the basic problems of the cloistered world of federal political journalism, writes Bernard Keane.
Fairfax: never mind the journalism, feel the width
The CEO of Fairfax, David Kirk, deserves credit. He has transformed Fairfax Media from a victim of history into a victor, writes Margaret Simons.
