Rupert the brave
June 20, 2009, 4:37pm, 59 views, Leave a Comment
It’s hard to know if Rupert Murdoch is being fair dinkum when he predicts that newspapers will be completely digital within the next two or three years. Read more
Taxpayers fund ABC web tilt
May 25, 2009, 9:36pm, 119 views, Leave a Comment
The Federal Government’s budget hand-out to the ABC to build regional websites has understandably upset newspaper publishers. Read more
Bushfires Royal Commission
March 14, 2009, 10:24am, 117 views, Leave a Comment
The Royal Commission into the Victorian bushfires should hold all its sessions in public. Read more
Age discounting over the top
February 21, 2009, 5:04pm, 96 views, Leave a Comment
VexNews delivers some interesting information on marketing ploys at The Age to boost/fudge ailing circulation figures. Read more
Freeview television
January 12, 2009, 10:39am, 214 views, Leave a Comment
Only about 40 percent of Australian households have made the switch to digital television since it was launched in 2001. Read more
Newspaper masthead ‘desecration’
July 19, 2008, 2:42pm, 292 views, Leave a Comment
The Australian Newsagency Blog has a section devoted to “newspaper masthead desecration” with 37 posts. Read more
Perth online war fizzles
June 29, 2008, 3:58pm, 224 views, Leave a Comment
The online media war in Perth is a fizzer. The much-hyped launch of Fairfax Media’s WA Today web site has delivered little that’s new, interesting or inspiring. Read more
The Age shows more bias
May 16, 2008, 5:14pm, 224 views, Leave a Comment
The Age’s online sub-editors have shown clear bias in their choice of language for describing an American court’s ruling on same-sex marriages. Read more
Quokka story was a joke
May 15, 2008, 10:26am, 233 views, Leave a Comment
WA Liberal leader Troy Buswell has taken the extraordinary step of issuing a media release to welcome a blogger’s apology for starting the quokka rumor. Read more
Chair-sniffing victim identified
May 12, 2008, 9:15pm, 521 views, Leave a Comment
The Australian identified Troy Buswell’s chair-sniffing victim as a former Liberal Party staffer and named her (since removed from the web). Read more
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