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Topic: hobart mercury
No prizes for guessing the <em>NT News</em>' biggest obsession.

We’ve matched every major metro newspaper to its biggest obsession

Media

Dec 15, 2017

4

Rudd and Abbott's daughters have disappeared from the campaign trail, as media and voters alike hit a wall of election fatigue, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>.

Richard Farmer’s campaign bites

Politics

Aug 23, 2013

In today's Media Briefs: Animal Farm on CCTV ... Turning back time at <em>The AFR</em> ... Front Page of the Day ... Stood-down Fairfax ed loses seat chance ... Al-Jazeera's Twitter hacked and more ...

Mercury rewrites Orwell … AFR time … Al-Jazeera twit-hacked …

Media

Jul 06, 2012

1

Bob Brown has joined an army of concerned Tasmanian community leaders to express outrage at plans to edit <em>The Mercury</em> in Melbourne, writes <b>Lindsay Tuffin</b> of the <a href="http://www.tasmaniantimes.com" target="_blank"><em>Tasmanian Times</em></a>.

Greens throw weight behind Mercury’s bid to stay local

Journalism

Apr 05, 2011

1

Reporters, photographers and subeditors at <em>The Mercury</em> are seething at plans to export Tasmanian subediting jobs to Melbourne and edit the state’s major newspaper interstate. <b>Lindsay Tuffin</b>, a former News Ltd journalist, reports.

Sub cuts: tension rising at News’ Mercury HQ in Hobart

Journalism

Apr 01, 2011

7

<em>Hobart Mercury</em> editor Garry Bailey responds to our <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/spinning-the-media">Spinning The Media</a> study findings that many of the articles analysed in his paper were initiated by public relations.

Editor of The Hobart Mercury, Garry Bailey, responds

Federal

Mar 15, 2010

"Senior Labor Party figures" have been peddling unsubstantiated claims about Greens leader Nick McKim's political future, says <b>Bob Burton</b>. Why is the <em>Mercury</em> granting them anonymity for such an obvious beat-up?

Why is Fairfax granting anonymity for a Labor Party beat-up?

Print

Feb 17, 2010

How a minor drunken prank escalated into a major Tasmanian political story may be as good as topic as any to kick off the journalists union’s Future of Journalism forum in Hobart on Thursday night, writes <b>Bob Burton</b>.

How a drunken prank became a major political story with flare

Journalism

Oct 14, 2009

1

Without much fanfare a few weeks ago Steve Lewis moved from being the Chief Political Correspondent of <i>The Australian</i> and became the national political correspondent appearing in all the Murdoch tabloids. As such he is perhaps now in a position to be the most powerful political journalist in the country, writes Richard Farmer.

A new journalist of influence

News

Sep 28, 2007

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