Fairfax Media is planning to expand its online National Times opinion site into news coverage, just as News Limited’s The Australian moves its best content behind an online paywall.
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The Punch vs. The National Times: a difference of opinion
Fairfax has been lauding the visitor stats for its new online commentary site The National Times for blowing those of News Ltd’s The Punch (and ours) out of the water. But are the sites even comparable?
Crikey Says: Fairfax as the national leaders in quality journalism? Ahem.
While the house burns, Ron Walker and the Fairfaxes fight over the silverware. Unfortunately for everyone, quality journalism isn’t a shiny platter.
Fairfax’s The National Times tells the same old story
Opinion is cheap in every sense of the word. And it’s what Fairfax’s new National Times gives us more of. But, says Margaret Simons, if you want journalism, in the long term you will have to pay people to do it.
Fairfax launches new website under an old masthead
Fairfax Digital has launched a new website under a resurrected masthead that hasn’t been published since the mid ’80s: The National Times. So what is it? Pure Poison investigates.
