Lachlan Murdoch swung his axe today, announcing that dozens of editorial staff at Channel Ten will go and long-running nightly bulletin Sports Tonight seems certain to be cancelled. Plus, other media news of the day.
The Age
Media briefs: Age’s split farewell … 16-word news …
Word has reached Crikey that a group of well-meaning Age types have organised a shindig for the departing subs, artists and designers, but management have foiled the farewell fiesta. Plus, other media news of the day.
Sacked Fairfax journo claims treatment ‘almost like a criminal’
Quill Award-winning journalist Andra Jackson has launched a massive spray at The Age and its editor-in-chief Paul Ramadge in the wake of her sacking in April, claiming she was treated “almost like a criminal” and denied access to her personal property.
Media briefs: Hun’s business … Oz’s ideological war … Diana at 50 …
The ‘ideological battleground’ seems like an odd tagline for a supposedly impartial newspaper, but that’s the latest ad campaign from The Australian. Plus other media news of the day.
Media briefs: Media briefs: Age of treason … Oz’s Moran-ic error … Mangos falls from Sky …
The Age’s deputy arts editor Kylie Northover doesn’t appear to dig the hollow celebrity guff on her own paper’s website. Plus, the unfortunate news graphic of the day and other media news.
Media briefs: Oz media content up for debate … more phone hack claims … Reddit boom …
In today’s Media Briefs: A tweet from within … Mr Ryle goes to Washington … Front page of the Day … Australian media content up for debate … News Corp executive vicitim of phone hacking … and more …
Media briefs: The Oz goes Fairfax … local content quotas … ACCC’s media worry …
The Australian tells Fairfax how to do its job. Plus, Free TV Australia wants to loosen the Australian content quota restrictions placed on Australian FTA broadcasters and other media news of the day.
Media briefs: SMH, Age to ditch broadsheet? … Mother Murdoch defies News Ltd …
In today’s Media Briefs: Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … The Age and 3AW buyout rejected … Mother Murdoch defies News Ltd stance on carbon tax …
Melbourne papers at war over Labor’s voter database
Another amusing instalment to Melbourne’s newspaper wars over the long weekend with Damon Johnston’s Sunday Herald Sun deciding to splash with a double page spread excoriating The Age for accessing the ALP’s Eleczilla database in the lead-up to state election.
Video of the Day: Birnbauer on the importance of subeditors
Award-winning investigative journalist and editor from The Age — and now senior lecturer in journalism at Monash University — Bill Birnbauer discusses Fairfax’s decision to cut subeditors and how important subs are for both a journalist and an editor. Bill Birnbauer on Fairfax’s decision to outsource subeditorial roles from Matt Mitchell on Vimeo.
Hywood on Fairfax …expectation, hoping, wishing …
Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood faced a 40-minute interrogation yesterday. As the relatively new CEO of Fairfax, he’s a good performer. Hats off. But there’s an anomaly in his message that just can’t be ignored.
The great News experiment begins
As expected, today at the Mumbrella360 conference News Limited’s Richard Freudenstein announced that the company’s Australian newspapers will erect paywalls for some of their content online.
The Age cries foul on OPI yarn, accuses Herald Sun of plagiarism
Rivers of bad blood continue to flow between the The Age’s Media House HQ and the Herald Sun’s Southbank bunker with The Age accusing its tabloid rival had ripped off a ball-tearing scoop last week under the cover of darkness.
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: will Fairfax apps change the fundamental outlook?
Can the slick new Fairfax apps for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald save the newspaper journalism business model?
Media briefs: Age blurs story … journo no-go zones … presidential speeches captured in real time …
In today’s Media Briefs: when a picture is not worth even a few words … The Department of Corrections … Age news judgement under fire and more …
Media briefs: Subs revolt at iPad launch … Facebook’s free AFR … Pakistan journalist found dead
Deputy editor quits The Age … Subs fight taken to Age iPad launch … AFR is free on Facebook … Worst slowdown since medieval times? …
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: Firing salvos at Fairfax … Pagemasters’ gaffes … Origin a TV hit …
In today’s Media Briefs: Salvo fires a salvo at Churchill … ABC News Breakfast serial mistake by Pagemasters … Fairfax’s City Weekly strongly criticises Fairfax … State verses state rates through the roof. …
Media briefs: All Chinese to The Age …French debate DSK … Libya releases journos …
In today’s Media Briefs: It’s all Chinese to The Age … Front page of the Day … Strauss-Kahn case sparks debate about French media’s deference to power and more …
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: 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.
Senior Age journos maintain their (r)age
Some of The Age’s most senior journalists have put their name to a statement that says that the outsourcing of subediting will be a “serious threat to the identity, integrity, quality and independence of The Age and The Sunday Age”.
Innovation in journalism: an example of how to do it — profitably
This is the first episode in a regular Monday series of articles I have been promising to write for some time. It is about innovation in journalism. That is, it is about how we might innovate in the core product of news organisations. It is intended as a counter to what I have been describing […]
Media briefs: Age staff rally … newspaper photoshops Hillary Clinton from iconic photo …
In today’s Media Briefs: NPR social-media guru explains Twitter ethics, ABC edges closer to rule change on paid sales, European ventures seek to fill a void in world news and more …
