To those familiar with the criminal justice system, the revelations in today’s Age about drug abuse and sex in Victoria’’s womens’ prison will come as no surprise.
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Glyn Davis’s modelling debut
Melbourne University Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis appears to have launched a modelling career spruiking the buttoned-up business section of The Age.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: News Ltd’s alternative agenda on book imports
News Ltd papers may have a secondary agenda in paying so much attention to parallel book imports, a damning report on the Victorian Government’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure, and the party’s over at The Age.
Crikey Says: Fairfax MIA on book imports
While The Australian afforded the issue of book reform appropriate and extensive coverage this morning, the Fairfax broadsheets were missing in action. It’s an absence Australian public life can ill-afford.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Rudd’s media management continues
What did journalist Sandra O’Malley write about Rudd’s trip to India that was enough to send him into a rage and attempt to ban future background briefings for overseas trips?
Sad tales from the opening of Melbourne’s new Fairfax building
Margaret Simons was at the “soft opening” of the new Age building in Melbourne. What’s a “soft launch”? It is the launch you have when the Board is dysfunctional and the Chairman doing the honours has been forced out.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Playing both sides of the Hockey field
Joe Hockey has been out locking in the support of Liberal moderates, The Age is still trying to slash funding for journalism awards, Fairfax pull stumps on “the best paper that Colac has ever had” are more hot tips.
The Age slashes commissions for real estate advertisers to staunch bleeding
The Age has taken the desperate measure of cutting commissions for real estate advertisers in an effort to protect its deteriorating balance sheet, a sign of how dire things have become inside the paper.
Marieke Hardy reaches for the phone book
With all the talk of Kindles coming to Oz, The Age are releasing a 20 episode fiction story written by Marieke Hardy to be sent daily to your mobile. How will the publishing experiment play out?
Former sub-editors battle The Age for back pay
Past and present subs at The Age have launched legal action after learning that they have been underpaid for the last ten years. That’s a pretty major mistake.
The unslanted state of the Australian media
The Australian media is pretty much neutral when it comes to slanted reporting, apart from a new notable exceptions, writes Joshua Gans. So how did everyone react to the news?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Politicians singing gospel?
Which politician has allegedly produced a CD of gospel songs, and where can we get a copy? Also, what got Press Gallery journos and political staffers ‘frothing at the mouth’?
Voting on The Age’s new business-sport-tabloid hybrid
Malcolm Farnsworth looks at the shrinking importance of the business section in The Age and perhaps a hidden agenda for the sports section.
Fairfax print earnings slump 66%
“Fairfax Media well positioned for recovery in advertising markets”, said the headline on the company’s press release today — but it was all about spin, not discussion and explanation for what was a very, very bad six months.
Many unhappy returns for newsagents
News Limited has just purchased a multi-million dollar circulation software package that is giving The Age enormous problems and angering newsagents across Victoria.
Media briefs: AFP and media broker deal, Kyle and Jackie O dodge a bullet
AFP and media to broker deal … Kyle and Jackie O dodge a bullet … Headline Watch: Viscous or vicious? … Majority of tweets inane drivel? …
Circulations wrap: calm down Rupert, things aren’t that bad here
While Fairfax and News Ltd papers are suffering nasty falls in ad revenues, recent figures of Australian newspapers show small, but not fatal falls in some cases and small rises in others.
Goodbye free news
The free content gravy train has come to an end in Australia, says Gary Sauer-Thompson, with News Ltd and now Fairfax moving to charge for access to their websites. But could this be a boon for bloggers and spawn the creation of more local news sites?
Fairfax to charge for online news
Hot on the heels of Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that all News Corp news sites will soon be charging for online content, Fairfax Media boss Brian McCarthy has announced plans to erect a paywall on both The Age and Sydney Morning Herald websites.
ASIO willing to leak to spin the news their way
Why are security agents prepared to break the law to cultivate the media, rather than simply doing their job and letting the headlines take care of themselves?
Elections slip out of newspapers
Australia’s newspapers have a problem: over the last three decades, there’s been a marked decline in front-page coverage of federal elections, according to research released yesterday.
