The top 15 brands on Twitter … A bad morning for the SMH online … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … Ten dumps 90-minute news …
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The 2011 Crikeys: the best in Australian media
Newspapers hemorrhage readers, broadcast media faces radical change, governments are probing ethics and ownership, yet good (and bad) journalism shines through. We present the Crikeys for Australian media …
Media briefs: Big Harto honour guard … Leveson latest … SMH defo case …
John Hartigan finishes up as News Limited CEO today, 41 years after he started at Rupert Murdoch’s Australian empire. Staff are preparing to stand to attention with a final salute …
Media briefs: NZ’s storm in a tea cup … Levison latest … Milly Dowler’s parents to testify
In today’s Media Briefs: TVNZ issued search warrant for ‘cup of tea’ … News Magazines rebrands …. Gold Coast mayor unhappy with 60 Minutes, The Department of Corrections and more …
Media briefs: A Harto-off … SMH online chaos … Nine debt strife …
In today’s Media Briefs: SMH online in chaos … Nine debt problems for shareholders … Neville Thurlbeck rejects request to help phone-hacking investigation and more …
Crikey Says: Crikey says: nothing to see here, folks
For a group of people who expend thousands of working hours each day holding every other industry and public figure to account, the “quality newspaper” industry has a deeply hypocritical view when it comes to its own accountability.
Media briefs: Jones highlights … angry Coast paper … bleak outlook for Hungry Beast …
Despite claims The Times now has 110,000 paying customers, News International confirmed overnight that around 120 journalists jobs would go from the paper. Plus other media news of the day.
Media briefs: SMH turns Japanese … WaPo’s Scalia stuff-up … Daily Mail invented account …
In today’s Media Briefs: SMH sports go Japanese … NewsBeast retracts false quote … Wilkie and Xenophon tackle Nine on pokie remarks and more …
Media briefs: Carr on Foxtel … Hun mum on source …
SMH’s Good Living reheats dish two weeks in a row … Hun mum on story sources … Bob Carr on Foxtel arts and ads … Hacking defender gets hacked and more …
Media briefs: Fairfax’s failed recipe … Hate, love and the media … NotW settlement …
In today’s Media Briefs: Fairfax’s Good Weekend and Good Living on the same menu … Spun out of Human Services job … Front Page of the Day … News International offers Milly Dowler’s family £3m settlement and more …
Fairfax staff vote for strike action on pay
Fairfax staff on The Age and The SMH are mulling whether to hit the barricades after a Fair Work Australia ballot showed 96% of union voters supported taking industrial action over stalled negotiations.
Media briefs: Media briefs: Henderson’s twist … SMH’s Zoo moment … NoW phone hack arrest …
In today’s Media Briefs: Henderson twisting the quotes … Boobs and tennis: the SMH footage … Phone-hacking investigation: arrested woman ‘may have written for News of the World and more …
Axeman arrives at Fairfax: Age subs tapped on the shoulder
The axe swung low at The Age last night, where numerous subeditors were tapped on the shoulder and told their time at the company was up.
Simons: finally Australia has a news media app that isn’t embarrassing
Will the new Age and SMH iPad apps save journalism as we have known it? Who knows. But Fairfax are giving it their best shot, and a pretty good shot it is too.
Media briefs: Carey’s Fairfax plea … journos turn on subs … SMH mistaken identity …
In today’s Media Briefs: Peter Carey’s message to Fairfax … Journos blame their subs — on Twitter … The Bryce ain’t right … Reporters in line for copyright windfall … and more
They heart the Herald: journos hit the pavement after sub cuts
Sydney Morning Herald hacks have turned out in force at their city’s main business mall to remind loyal readers their broadsheet is under dire threat from Greg Hywood’s decision to sack the paper’s subeditors.
Fairfax staff revolt: ‘subs are still in fashion’
As hundreds of revved-up Fairfax staff move en-masse to rallying points in Sydney and Melbourne in their fight over CEO Greg Hywood’s planned sacking of 300 comrades, the anecdotes have have been flowing thick and fast.
Media briefs: Age‘s protest picnic … Fairfax sells radio …
Former Labor premier John Cain and Father Bob Maguire will descend on the “Grassy Knoll” outside The Age’s building tomorrow to protest the company’s decision to sack 300 staff. Plus other media news of the day.
Media briefs: Fairfax to strike? … more Behrendt beat-ups …
Fairfax staff have not ruled out rolling industrial action to shut down The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald after Greg Hywood’s botched announcement yesterday. Plus, angry Lonely Planet staff and other media news.
Media briefs: Emptiness at The Age … praise for our Paul … Bolt’s weird spray …
In today’s Media Briefs: shambles at The Age … Vic rock lobby defends diminishing returns … Facebook will pay gamers to watch video ads … Big change for MTV networks … and more …
Angry hacks demand Fairfax look elsewhere for savings
Torrents of anger continue to course through Fairfax newsrooms in Melbourne and Sydney after chief executive Greg Hywood told staff he would trigger forced redundancies if subeditors in the firing line refused to sack themselves.
Beecher: from a burning platform, Fairfax had to take the plunge
The new leadership at Fairfax Media will attract fierce criticism over the announcement today of a recalibration of its flagship newspapers by sacking all their sub-editors. But they had to do something.
Media briefs: Budget beat-ups begin … SMH goes back in time
The Canberra Times previews the ACT state budget, American retailer Backcountry had to apologise for a tasteless email and other media news.
Media briefs: Tele apologises to mum … SMH & the Greens … Front page of the day …
War of words over Australian profits, losses … Mum’s the word on bully boy … Mixed messages at the SMH … Front page of the Day and more …
Hywood unbackable as new Fairfax CEO, with more cuts to come
Fairfax Media is bracing for sweeping changes to its senior executive ranks, with well-placed sources telling Crikey that acting chief executive Greg Hywood is now an unbackable favourite to be confirmed in the top job following the company’s board meeting next Friday.
