My life as a tabloid newspaper editorFormer Sun editor David Yelland spills on being a tabloid editor (and an alcoholic) at the News Ltd empire, from embarrassing breakfast meetings with Rupert Murdoch to dinner with the Blairs and commuting on the Concorde.
Tabloids
The phoniest tabloid tales of the year
From Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s endless breakups to by-the-minute updates on Katie Holmes’s uterus, Jezebel takes a look back at the year that was in the celebrity news that… wasn’t.
Starsuckers: British tabloids caught in the act by filmmakers
The sewers of London’s tabloid newspapers are explored in a documentary film called Starsuckers Predictably, the silence of the tabloids has been deafening.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Tabloid Crikey?
Crikey readers weigh in on Michael Danby’s criticisms of New Matilda and Crikey and Mark Day on Mark Day.
Crikey Says: Tabloids struggle with health report
Australia’s tabloid/broadsheet divide was again highlighted with the release of the important, if difficult-to-pitch, report from the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission which landed yesterday.
Hu is the broadsheets’ Schapellian moment
Stern Hu is the broadsheets’ own Schapelle, almost perfectly designed to push the buttons of the commentariat in the same way as your ordinary punters had their buttons pushed by the Corby saga.
Why investigative journalism needs … investigating
The really shocking aspect of the News International phone hacking revelations is that they have appeared in public, argues Crikey publisher Eric Beecher. The cat is out of the bag.
Political snippets: Media returns to business as usual
Things are returning to normal in the tabloids after the excitement of Utegate, with rugby league and sex back on the front page.
Brangelina: the story that writes itself
The Jen-Brad-Angelina love triangle has become a staple of the celebrity gossip rag, with a new twist splashed in fluro yellow across tabloid pages every week. But where do the stories come from? And are they even vaguely true? Oliver Burkeman investigates.
Milne’s version distorted by the unsubstantiated
Glenn Milne’s piece in News Corporation’s Sunday tabloids about Kevin Rudd’s drunken visit to Scores nightclub in New York with News Corporation editor Col Allan, and Labor MP Warren Snowdon, is an excellent example of deliberate journalistic distortion.
Holy psephology! News Ltd pollsters at odds
What’s this? Internecine warfare at News Limited over public opinion polls? It sure looks like it.
