Sick of tiptoeing outside in your dressing gown of a morning to ferret the newspaper out of the hedge, then fruitlessly trying to unpick the plastic wrapping off the thing before throwing it across the room? News Limited feels your pain – they’re currently testing a new “flat wrap” service to make newspaper home delivery […]
Sick of tiptoeing outside in your dressing gown of a morning to ferret the newspaper out of the hedge, then fruitlessly trying to unpick the plastic wrapping off the thing before throwing it across the room? News Limited feels your pain – they’re currently testing a new “flat wrap” service to make newspaper home delivery […]
While workers and businesses scramble to comprehend what Howard’s proposed IR changes will mean for them, how are players in the exclusive (and lucrative) IR club reacting to the proposed changes? Howard has been heralding his proposed legislation as a “job creation package,” and some IR insiders have told Crikey that this will apply for […]
Sydney newsagents have been cut out of a deal to distribute thousands of Fairfax newspapers through the Fitness First gym network – and believe the gyms are receiving the newspapers for free. Mark Fletcher, a Victorian newsagency owner who runs the Australian Newsagency Blog, told Crikey that two Sydney newsagents confirmed to him that they […]
Back in May, Tony Abbott delivered a stark warning about the bird flu pandemic – or what he called the “far-from-merely-speculative influenza emergency which could dwarf the health consequences of a conventional terrorist attack.” The scary speech, delivered at a conference on infectious diseases, barely registered a blip on the radar. But the SMH reports […]
Former US first lady Barbara Bush has an interesting take on the plight of the Hurricane Katrina refugees today – “this is working very well for them.” The Bush family matriarch toured hurricane relief centres in Houston, and her remarks were aired on National Public Radio’s Marketplace program and it is reported in Editor and […]
Readers of the flood of Jon Stanhope fan mail published recently in The Canberra Times could be fooled into thinking that the beleagured Chief Minister still has plenty of admirers ready to defend him to the death. But it’s worth doing a quick background check on the people who penned the tomes before jumping to […]
Yesterday Margo Kingston announced she was pulling her Webdiary from the SMH but we checked the site today and it’s still up and running, complete with Margo’s face plastered all over it. Crikey rang acting SMH editor and Fairfax editor-in-chief Mark Scott for an explanation. Despite editing newspapers that rely on hundreds of interviews every […]
The Korp story has all the stuff that tabloid dreams are made of; murder, infidelity, goat sacrifices and now, a suicide video. So why won’t anyone touch Joe’s home movie with a ten foot pole? When did the tabloid media develop this sudden allergy to dirt? The morbid movie is just the latest chapter in […]
Adland was rumbling this morning after the news that one of Australia’s biggest advertisers, Coles Myer, has yanked its flagship Coles supermarket account from powerhouse agency Young and Rubicam in favour of a tiny six-person agency called The Solomon Partnership. According to this story by Julian Lee in this morning’s SMH, the lucrative account it […]
