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The report into culture and administration at Swimming Australia is damning. There was a critical failure of leadership, under a system that doesn't put the best in charge, writes sports researcher <b>Dr James Connor</b>.

Swimming against the tide: do athletes make good bosses?

Feb 20, 2013

New research on TV audience share for August states Ten had the "worst since the turn of the century" and that more people watched Foxtel during the Olympics. Which is like comparing apples and blue cheese.

Foxtel out-rated Ten during Games? Yes, but no …

Sep 13, 2012

Australia Post took dozens of its largest clients and their partners to the London Games, with the largesse including business-class airfares and accommodation a five-star hotels.

Every post a winner for Fahour’s guests at Games

Sep 03, 2012

Market capitalisation of listed companies is arguably the best public measure of who is creating private wealth in our globalised world -- and it correlates reasonably well against the Olympics medal count.

Mayne: our biz performance well behind Olympic record

Aug 15, 2012

An interesting sidelight to the efforts of Julia Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden ...

Ranking countries according to their respect for the rule of law

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

Aug 15, 2012

Perhaps director Danny Boyle set the bar too high with his brilliant coordination of the Olympics Opening Ceremony. The Closing Ceremony was messy and wit-less, saved only by the spectacle of good old fashioned fireworks, writes <b>Alan Davies</b>.

Fireworks: the one thing that saved the Closing Ceremony

Aug 15, 2012

In today's Media Briefs:Jewish News defiant over boat people op-ed .... Front Page of the Day ... London Olympics a TV hit. Shock. ... MasterChef to find a new home ... The legacy of Helen Gurley Brown ...

Media briefs: Jewish News defiant … Olympic ratings … homeless MasterChef …

Aug 14, 2012

Comparing and judging cities on the basis of their planning for the Oymplics is a fraught exercise, writes <b>Alan Davies</b>, responding to a <em>SMH</em> story about how London allegedly prepared for the Games better than Sydney.

Sydney v London Olympics: who was better prepared?

Aug 14, 2012

My God, the Olympics ... something the hell is happening; outside there's fireworks or mad bombing, and it's on the TV screen too, so ahhhh, it must be the Olympics closing ceremony.

Rundle’s Olympics wrap: ‘piece of weird-ass shit’

Aug 13, 2012

There's no doubt Channel Nine's head honchos will feel bruised by the bollocking their station's Olympic Games coverage has copped from journalists and social media users over the past two weeks.

Will Nine’s Olympics gamble pay off? All eyes on Big Brother

Aug 13, 2012

In today's Media Briefs: Hun's VicRoads howler II. ... Front Page of the Day ... The Department of Corrections ... Conroy says Whirlpool more accurate than AFR ... Obama, Critic-in-Chief of the news ...

Media briefs: Age exits mount … Kyle dodges ACMA … Hun’s VicRoads howler …

Aug 10, 2012

Andrew Tolson of De Montfort University, Leicester, has set out to find whether the concept of "neutralism" still applied to TV journalists during election campaigns or whether "conflict talk" or "confrontainment" now predominated.

A study of assertiveness in political interviewing

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

Aug 10, 2012

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