Editorial interference by the ABC's chairman
ABC Chairman Maurice Newman made a few comments yesterday that may go a long way to explaining some of the pressures editors and producers at the public broadcaster may be under – specifically on the issue of anthropogenic global warming [...]
The Guardian does its paywall math
On the recent thread about the ABC’s intention to offer a 24 hour news channel, commenter SCPritch linked, with appropriate approbation, to the text of a lecture by the editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger. Rusbridger’s topic was “Does Journalism [...]
The ABC of Drumming up some online opinion analysis
When the ABC’s Drum was launched, Margaret Simons cited a piece by Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on internal discussions of ABC journos writing opinion pieces, which I referred to in this post: Simons then looks at the cult(ure) of [...]
How (not) to do things with graphs
Possum has a cracker of a post up on Andrew Bolt’s infamous climate change graphs. Go read, as they say. He also pings the blurring of the opinion/analysis distinction at the ABC, where Bolt seems to wear two hats – [...]
"The Internet has not destroyed journalism"
It’s interesting to see some realism emerging in the media about the causes of the woes of newspapers and journalism as a profession. I can well recall speaking at a number of professional fora over a couple of years where [...]
Political media FAIL
Richard Farmer: No government this morning. For the first time since I have been preparing the breakfast media wrap for Crikey I could not find a story to list this morning that quoted a Federal Government Minister. The whole attention [...]
The National Times
Fairfax has revived an old masthead for its new opinion site. In some ways, that’s probably the most interesting aspect of the launch – those who remember the old National Times might well also recall the days when genuinely hard [...]
What if the paywall works?
At New Matilda, Jason Wilson takes on the prevailing wisdom about the News Limited paywall plans: The notion that News Corp’s proposed paywall “won’t work” is in danger of becoming common sense. The problem with this is that, on the [...]
Will anyone pay for online news?
There’s an interesting take in Australian Policy Online from my QUT Creative Industries Faculty colleague, Terry Flew, on the whole question of business models for online news, which has had quite the airing of late. My own view is that [...]
Turns out people do watch day time tv
By Mark Bahnisch on March 24, 2010
Last night, I made a point about the claim that the Great Health Debate was unimportant, because, as most munificently expressed by Grahame Morris, no one (important) watches day time television. I wrote: I wouldn’t be so quick to assume [...]
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