February 24, 2009 – 12:29 pm
In the wake of the Quadrant hoax affair, there has been a continuing and sometimes quite heated debate on this blog and others about the similarities and differences between bloggers and journalists. (Start here and follow the links if you are coming in late). Now media academic Jason Wilson has given the issue a good [...]
February 22, 2009 – 12:49 pm
The Australian Newspaper History Group is seeking informatino about the impact of the Victorian bushfires on small newspapers serving the affected towns. The information will go into the Group’s next newsletter, deadline 27 February.
The ANHG is run out of the University of Queensland’s Journalism School by Rod Kirkpatrick. You can read past issues of its [...]
February 22, 2009 – 12:41 pm
The Washington Post has a new readers’ ombudsman, Andrew Alexander. You can read his first column here.
He says:
As The Post’s new ombudsman, I am its internal critic. My job is to represent the interests of readers, hold The Post to high standards and explain its inner workings to an often-suspicious public.
If I do my job [...]
February 20, 2009 – 4:40 pm
Further to my earlier post, I have just been sent this link to a The Electronic Frontier Foundation which offers legal help to bloggers, including among other things asserting:
Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers). We’re battling for legal and institutional recognition that if you engage in journalism, you’re a journalist, with all [...]
February 20, 2009 – 4:38 pm
Friend of mine just had the following call from The Age subscription department:
Just had a call from Daniel at The Age subscription department offering me (as an ex-subscriber) a special deal of $4 / week for all seven days delivery.THe weekend only special price is $4.50!
I told him that I had tried to [...]
February 20, 2009 – 4:34 pm
The most notable, though not the most surprising, item in MEAA Federal Secretary Chris Warren’s weekly missive, posted earlier, is that the ABC pay dispute has been settled.
For those who just came in, the latter stages of this dispute were very strange, with the ABC Section of the Community and Public Sector Union accusing ABC [...]
February 20, 2009 – 4:12 pm
Each Friday Chris Warren, the Federal Secretary of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, puts out an email bulletin to members. Here is this week’s version.
Welcome to your weekly media e-bulletin. This week
-You’ve got to be in it to win it…
-ABC accept new offer, call for talks
-News Ltd roster changes delayed
-News community petition
-Early bird special [...]
February 19, 2009 – 4:20 pm
I’ll be writing more in the Crikey email tomorrow about imminent further cost cutting at our major newspaper titles (tips to margaret@margaretsimons.com.au).
But in the meantime, the email below has gone out to staff at The Age. Sad stuff. I remember when I was a junior reporter at The Age missives like this went out now [...]
February 19, 2009 – 4:12 pm
Long term readers of this blog (and the others that participated) will remember the debate on the ‘Bloggers v Journalists frame’ that got kicked around a couple of months back in the wake of the Quadrant Hoax, with one of the best contributions being that by Quiggin, in my view.
There was a great deal of [...]
