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By Kim on July 19, 2011
As the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks prepare to appear before the House of Commons, we may have reached a tipping point where the noise machine’s days are numbered.
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By crankynick on January 13, 2010
Margaret Simons has an interesting piece up at Crikey talking about some research on whether people will pay for online content, and the likely move of The Oz to a paywall system. It’s an interesting piece but she falls, like [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged Crikey, news, News Limited, newspapers, online journalism, online media |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, International, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged crisis, future of journalism, future of media, industrial journalism, internet, journalism, Le Monde Diplomatique, margaret simons, newspapers, print journalism, social media, Sociology, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 16, 2009
A lot of the most reliable data on web use and social media comes from the World Internet Project. Most of the findings from the project derive from rigorous quantitative research, and unlike a lot of what purports to be [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged business models, content creation, cultural studies, Culture, Economics, everyday life, facebook, fairfax, future of journalism, future of media, internet, jeffrey cole, lived experience, margaret simons, myspace, newspapers, print journalism, science and technology studies, social media, social networking, social uses of technology, Sociology, swinburne university, user generated content, web, web 2.0, world internet project |
By Kim on July 14, 2009
Andrew Bolt makes sense! Truth is that it’s actually a waste of time and credibility to try to make a news story about minor changes in the Newspoll figures – changes that fall even within the margin of error. Bottom [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged andrew bolt, Blogging, commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, journalism, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, News Limited, newspapers, Newspoll, Polls, psephological blogging, psephology, Rupert Murdoch, The Australian |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 1, 2009
Crikey‘s editorial today (reproduced over the fold with permission) picked up on the political significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s critical remarks about the conduct of News Limited papers in publishing the concocted email at the centre of the [...]
Posted in Ethics, Media, Politics | Tagged Anna Bligh, coverage, Crikey, election coverage, Ethics, Federal election 2007, John Hartigan, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Media, media watch, new media, News Limited, newspapers, political journalism, Queensland election 2009, scandal, Utegate |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 14, 2009
The ABC’s managing director, Mark Scott, has proved a much more interesting pick than many anticipated at the time of his appointment. Over at Woolly Days, Derek Barry summarises a speech Scott made in giving the Latrobe University annual media [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, appointments, Culture, fairfax, future of journalism, future of media, Griffith REVIEW, innovation, interactivity, Julianne Schultz, Latrobe University, lecture, mark scott, Media, media studies, newspapers, print journalism, print media, Rudd government, Sociology, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, web 2.0 |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/doomsday460.jpg" align=left Part of the whole “death of the newspaper” narrative arc (though not the current focus on Google as a supposedly evil aggregator, driven by the commercial interests of news corporations) is the purported death of the critic. [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on April 6, 2009
Rupert Murdoch and a gaggle of editors/columnists/commentatorsminions have been sounding off about the evils of Google as a news aggregator. News Limited is a “content creator”, it’s asserted, and news aggregation is something akin to theft. A few years ago, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged blogosphere, blogs, consumer behaviour, content creation, google, media industry, news aggregators, News Limited, newspapers, online, Rupert Murdoch, user generated content |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2009
For anyone following the declining fortunes of the newspaper (and perhaps of journalism), there’s some interesting reading on the intertubes today. At Inside Story, MEAA communications director Jonathan Este takes a look at the trends – and the different strategies [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged future of journalism, journalism, Media, media futures, media studies, newspapers, public policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2009
Of late, there’s been something of an upsurge of bad news about the news, prompted probably by the coincidence in the acceleration in the decline of newspaper business models under the pressure of the global financial crisis and the upsurge [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Culture, Markets, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged audiences, Bachratz, Baratz, decline, editors, global financial crisis, Jay Rosen, journalism, Media, media studies, new media, newspapers, non-decision making, non-decisions, pluralism, political science, power, Sociology, sociology of culture |
Newspoll 55-45; The Australian turns 45
By Kim on July 14, 2009
Andrew Bolt makes sense! Truth is that it’s actually a waste of time and credibility to try to make a news story about minor changes in the Newspoll figures – changes that fall even within the margin of error. Bottom [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged andrew bolt, Blogging, commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, journalism, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, News Limited, newspapers, Newspoll, Polls, psephological blogging, psephology, Rupert Murdoch, The Australian | 10 Responses