A bounty of tips today from Turnbull, his vociferous staffer and Marinergate to Andrew Jaspan.
Sydney Morning Herald
Tips and rumours: In which Malcolm Turnbull eats a, gasp, hot dog
Bangaroo bust-up bad news for Rees
Buried in a newspaper story on the weekend was a disclosure that is bad news for the struggling NSW Government.
Taste and decency AWOL at SMH
The SMH’s taste and decency seems to have dropped another level with their coverage of actress Lucy Gordon’s death, says a Crikey reader.
newspaper death watch Fairfax slashes digital advertising rates
Fairfax Digital Media has slashed its advertising yield for June in what appears to be a desperate bid to fill unsold inventory, writes Tim Burrowes.
Will Fairfax subsidise their flagships for the health of democracy?
Are Fairfax Media prepared to fund the papers at, or close to, a loss in the interests of Australian democracy?
Oops SMH tech writer snagged in Johns group sex storm
You’d think a technology reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper would be aware of the perils of airing his private views on very public internet forums.
Media briefs: The incredible shrinking SMH and more
Matthew Johns stands down amid sex scandal, the ever shrinking SMH and reporter tweets being shot.
newspaper death watch Fairfax classifieds nearly halved year-on-year
New page-count research shows big falls in the volumes of classified advertising in the key Fairfax papers.
Memo to journos: why you can’t trust Wikipedia #569
A 22-year-old Irish sociology student managed to trap a good slice of the worldʼs media, including Australian outlets, by messing with a Wikipedia entry. Yes, the oldest trick online trick in the book.
Bob Carr’s excuses backfire explosion
Former NSW Premier Bob Carr’s attempt to revise recent history and air-brush his record-breaking 10 years in office has ended in a humiliating debacle.
Buffett calls time on the newspaper era
As Warren Buffett delivered his obituary for newspapers over the weekend, Australia’s mastheads were still in a state of denial.
Four Corners replies: cop this Paul Sheehan
Debbie Whitmont and Sue Spencer respond to Paul Sheehan’s article criticising the Four Corners’ episode “The Newman Case”.
Fairfax journos peddle false economic optimism
Fairfax journalists are treating the IMF’s forecasts like fact, says Scott Mitchell.
Tips and rumours: A new logo for NSW?
Is there a better way to bust a recession that pay a design team squillions to come up with a new logo?
Tips and rumours: What positions pay at the ABC
How much does a junior manager or a senior producer get paid at Radio National? Tipsters share with Crikey.
Media briefs: High class ladies: how they roll in Cairns
Cairns Post readers on how they’ll spend their $900, SMH’s Photoshop fail, and China defies the media trends.
Media briefs: ITV to deliver Murdoch/Sky killer blow?
The Murdochs and BSkyB have already taken a bath on the 17.9% of ITV they bought a couple of years ago: But could ITV be about to deliver a killer blow to Sky and Murdoch?
NSW Public Service Association’s sexist Facebook campaign
The NSW Public Service Association has hoodwinked The SMH into publishing a very high-minded story about freedom of opinion, neatly masking the fact that the union’s members have been running a dirty and s-xist campaign of abuse via the Internet.
Crikey Says: Why Nielsen poll matters
Today’s Nielsen poll is the first published by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald since last November. Not good enough.
Fairfax restructure just more jobs for the boys
Fairfax’s long touted reorganization is much ado about nothing: mediocrity rewarded, according to a Fairfax insider.
Raging rumours of sackings at News Ltd
Take the rumours of imminent mass sackings with a bit of salt, writes Margaret Simons.
Premier Rees’ latest recruits offer new hope
The cavalry has arrived to provide some relief for the besieged Nathan Rees Government in the form of Graham Wedderburn and Bob Leece, writes Alex Mitchell.
Victorian bushfires: disaster p-rn and story telling
The Victorian bushfires could be an opportunity for new relationships between media and public. Instead, the worst of the coverage has been formulaic, writes Margaret Simons.
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.
NSW says “Bye, bye” to triple-A rating obsession
Governments are elected to govern and provide public services funded by taxpayer revenue, investments and borrowing, not to keep the books in surplus for the benefit of Wall Street, writes Alex Mitchell.
