Sophie Black, Author at Crikey

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Sophie Black

Crikey editor

After months of ongoing discussions, Private Media, publisher of <em>Crikey</em>, is officially joining the Australian Press Council.

Why <em>Crikey</em> is joining the Press Council

Mar 19, 2012

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Several weeks ago <em>Crikey</em>, and our publisher Private Media, promised our own internal code of conduct. Here it is.

Cracking the code and regulating the wild west of online media

Sep 19, 2011

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We salute these valid contributions to dumbing down and deliberately misleading the public and commend them to the public -- with extra points to Scullion for simultaneously making politics more stupid and slightly threatening with the wave of a piping bag.

Sideshow Alley: let them eat cake

Jul 29, 2011

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Each week Sideshow Alley will nominate the latest offerings to the service of dumbing down politics by journalists and/or politicians...

Sideshow Alley: I'm sorry, could you repeat the question?

Jul 22, 2011

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Each week we'll nominate the latest offerings to the service of dumbing down politics by journalists and/or politicians and at the end of each month we'll be asking Lindsay Tanner to write through his pick of the best/worst example.

A pair of black court shoes

Jul 15, 2011

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This headline appears on page 9 of <em>The Australian</em> today: "<em>Crikey</em> forced to remove fake Abbott story". That was news to us. Let us explain what happened...

A step-by-step guide to manufacturing a story, c/o The Oz

Feb 24, 2011

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In a strong line-up, El Guincho seemed to be the first band to be given The Boot. A tradition that first sprung up at sister festival Golden Plains, there's no higher honour than witnessing a section of the crowd hold their shoes aloft in a sign of respect for a great performance.

Catch Meredith highlight act El Guincho in Perth

Dec 17, 2010

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20 years later, and the annual Meredith Music festival is world renowned as one of, if not the, best music festivals in Australia. What's its secret? Why does it engender such loyalty and love from patrons?

Beg for last-minute Meredith Music Festival tix

Dec 09, 2010

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James D. Catlin, who acted for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in London back in October, told <em>Crikey</em> that Swedish authorities still haven't provided "powerful exculpatory evidence" -- a series of SMS messages and tweets sent by the women involved -- necessary to obtain an arrest warrant.

Former Assange lawyer asks: what about the exculpatory evidence?

Dec 08, 2010

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Joye: we have an information exchange for equities -- why not debt?

Nov 08, 2010

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The following photos, taken in May and June this year, have been smuggled out of the Australian funded and built detention centre Tanjung Pinang on Bintan island near Singapore.

Inside Tanjung Pinang: the future of offshore processing

Jul 23, 2010

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The government has put its money where its mouth is when it comes to backing its increasingly hardline rhetoric on border security, flagging $1.2 billion Australia's borders.

Border security gets a billion

May 11, 2010

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