The desperation the Sydney media has for its own version of Melbourne’s Underbelly knows no end as they try to outscoop each other over the murder of small-time Sydney standover merchant Michael McGurk.
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Sun-Herald loses its Canberra correspondent
Kerry-Anne Walsh, the Sydney Sun-Herald ’s political correspondent in Canberra for the past seven years, resigned yesterday and will leave Fairfax in three months’ time.
The Ricky Stuart and Gus Gould fallout: we don’t care
but the public saga of the fallout between Ricky Stuart and Gus Gould is surely one of the most boring things to grace NRL in living memory, writes Steve Kaless.
Rees is the NSW premier, whatever the press gallery thinks
A week is a long time in politics, especially if you are following the print media in NSW, writes Alex Mitchell.
Fairfax day of reckoning
Fairfax journalists lining up for voluntary redundancies will find out today whether they can take the money and run and everyone else will find out how many will be kicked out against their will, writes Andrew Dodd.
The Sun-Herald’s al-Qaeda story is strangely familiar…
Yesterday’s Sun-Herald reports that Muslim prison inmates in New South Wales have been studying an al-Qaeda manual. Hmmm … Where have we heard that before?
Election 04: The newpapers’ choice last time round
Ahead of Election ‘04, no mainstream newspaper endorsed the ALP. Or more precisely, no editorial recommended Mark Latham for Prime Minister. With the stumbling block of Latham removed, and the less volatile Rudd in his place, last Sunday’s papers revealed a different mood.
