Newspaper masthead ‘desecration’

July 19, 2008, 2:42pm, 202 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

May 16, 2008, 5:14pm, 172 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

Police intimidation

April 30, 2008, 8:34pm, 310 views,  5 Comments

All Australians should be concerned with today’s WA police raid on the Sunday Times office in Perth. Read more

Chinese press gag

April 28, 2008, 9:44pm, 182 views,  Leave a Comment

Free the press in China
The World Association of Newspapers is leading a push to free the press in China. Read more

Unrest at The Age

April 25, 2008, 4:48pm, 132 views,  Leave a Comment

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

Media Alliance weighs in

April 18, 2008, 10:11pm, 170 views,  Leave a Comment

West Australian Attorney-General Jim McGinty has barred journalists from The West Australian from receiving notice of government media conferences. Read more

Are newspapers dying?

March 2, 2008, 4:05pm, 218 views,  Leave a Comment

An interactive American poll has challenged the authority and relevance of newspapers in that country. In some of the key findings: Read more

Media war in the west

February 22, 2008, 6:01pm, 176 views,  Leave a Comment

The escalating battle between the West Australian Government and Perth’s only daily newspaper has reached a sorry new level.

According to The Australian, a dirt file on the editor of The West Australian, Paul Armstrong, was leaked to a journalist.

The document is a damning critique of Armstrong’s editorship and gives the mobile phone number of a former reporter it says will claim that Armstrong rewrote a story to make it anti-government. Read more