Fairfax under the pump

Posted by Michael on February 21, 2009, 5:49pm, 218 views,  Leave a comment

According to a report in The Australian, rival Fairfax media has debt of $2.3 billion and market capitalisation of $1.5 billion. Read more

Age discounting over the top

Posted by Michael on February 21, 2009, 5:04pm, 161 views,  Leave a comment

VexNews delivers some interesting information on marketing ploys at The Age to boost/fudge ailing circulation figures. Read more

Newspaper masthead ‘desecration’

Posted by on July 19, 2008, 2:42pm, 362 views,  Leave a comment

The Australian Newsagency Blog has a section devoted to “newspaper masthead desecration” with 37 posts. Read more

The Age shows more bias

Posted by on May 16, 2008, 5:14pm, 280 views,  Leave a comment

Age biasThe 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

Unrest at The Age

Posted by on April 25, 2008, 4:48pm, 226 views,  Leave a comment

Crikey gives an interesting account of current unrest at Fairfax newspapers. Read more

Fairfax watch #1

Posted by on October 21, 2007, 12:47pm, 359 views,  Leave a comment

I’ve written before about perceived Labor bias in the Fairfax press. I checked in at the Liberal Party web site this morning and saw Peter Costello claiming dodgy figures in Labor’s tax policy release.

Fairly big story, I thought, even if the numbers are in dispute. Arguably Australia’s best news web site in terms of detail and timeliness (perceived bias aside), nothing has shown up yet on The Age front page. Instead there is a big splash on Kevin Rudd’s childcare policy.

Credit to that other nest of left-leaning journalists, the ABC, for giving prominence to both items.

For those web sites which are frequently updated it’s hard to know if a story might have been and gone between visits, but in an election environment all media have an ethical obligation to maintain balanced coverage.