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.
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Are we making excuses for terrorists?
Some in the media are portraying the Somali terror suspects as youths who have been failed by Australian society. Tim Blair disagrees.
John Howard on the good, the bad and the well-read
In yesterday’s lecture on ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ of Australia’s media, ex-PM John Howard warned of the importance of a “sceptical” media.
Spend $2million for 100,000 sales: an Age reader offer
The Age is desperate to shore up dropping sales figures and it’s taking desperate steps — giveaways and reader promotions — to try and halt the decline.
Rudd’s essay: an economist’s take
The Prime Minister’s latest published essay prompted this detailed response from economist Steve Keen.
Crikey Says: The Age v China
The Age should move beyond cheap headlines and suggestions of sinister connection to Asians.
Tips and rumours: 7:30 Report set for a new look?
In today’s tips: “With The 7.30 Report’s Kerry O’Brien on yet another of his extended vacations, ABC News bosses have begun tinkering with the idea of wholesale change to the program next year.”
Tips and rumours: DFAT wants Turnbull and Bishop to butt out?
A Crikey tipster writes: A DFAT legal adviser told us the current case of Mr Hu is being compromised by ill informed megaphone behaviour of the Opposition leaders.
Tips and rumours: Some letters on red envelopes
Tipsters tell us about red envelopes in China and more cost-cutting at The Age.
On Line Opinion fights bias allegation
Old media v new media: The Age’s Richard Baker alleged that e-journal On Line Opinion pulled an article by NSW Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon on Malcolm Turnbull. Editor Graham Young has denied Baker’s implications.
Tips and rumours: While the PM’s away…
What have the ALP been up to while Rudd has been globetrotting? Tipsters tell all.
Tips and rumours: Age online casual says: we were sacked by phone
Age online journo tells of sacking experience, SBS to use foreign screen writers, ABC’s content culture under Mark Scott, journalists quote colleagues as experts.
Julia Medew named Young Australian Journalist of the Year
Age journalist Julia Medew won the Young Australian Journalist of the Year award last night for her reporting on “ghost wards” in Victorian hospitals.
The Age online sacks casual staff
Fairfax Media has sacked its casual staff at The Age online and — according to insiders — threatened the editorial quality of its popular website in the process.
Postmodern spruiking overload at The Age
Cabaret singer Melissa Madder Gray’s conducted a master class on self-promotion in last week’s Sunday Age.
Fairfax finally merges its Canberra bureaux
Few things have been more contentious between the SMH and The Age than the very mention of amalgamating the papers’ federal Parliamentary bureaus. Now, it’s happened.
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.
Age employees start planning their 2010 holidays
Management at The Age are insisting that staff take great swathes of long-accumulated leave, and that they plan their annual leave dates a year in advance. So forward thinking.
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?
The Johns pack-sex saga: the media can’t lose
Pack sex is working class males’ one-fingered salute to the sexual myths the media has immersed them in since childhood.
Message to PR flacks: You win
Daily newspaper and broadcast journalism is in the process of capitulating to that insidious and often irresistible attraction: the easy feed of the PR industry.
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.
Political snippets: The Age finds communists in China
The Age investigates and finds communism in China, Australians are not drinking any less and headline of the day!
Pagemasters takes on the jobs Fairfax rejects
Australian company Pagemasters is successfully doing deals with ailing media companies to provide what used to be seen as core functions for newspapers.
What would you pay for a Costello column?
Is Peter Costello a paid Fairfax contributor? Staff want to know.
