March 24, 2009 – 10:15 pm
A while ago now I reported on one of the rare cases where the Australian Communications and Media Authority had actually used its powers to make a finding against tabloid tv current affairs shows. The main issue, as I saw it, was slowness. It had taken almost three years from broadcast to finding.
Well, today ACMA [...]
Don’t you hate the sound of your own voice? I can never quite credit how the English accent persists, even though I left that country more than 40 years ago.
Nevertheless, those of you who tolerate my musings on media futures might find this podcast on the Inside Story site of interest. I was interviewed by [...]
Jason Whittaker is a brave man, particularly since he has a job in media to lose. He is a managing editor for a division of ACP Magazines. This hasn’t stopped him from blogging on why it is the incompetence of media executives, not the Internet, that is killing the media.
He has acid words for all [...]
March 22, 2009 – 10:47 pm
Below I have posted the text of a speech given last week at the Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards by the man who was until recently the biggest shareholder in Fairfax Media, Mr JB Fairfax.
I think this speech is one of the saddest things I have read for a long, long while. Like many people [...]
Category
Winner/s
Organisation
Title
Young Journalist of the Year Award
Tom Steinfort
Channel 9
Highly Commended
David Hastie
Sunday Herald Sun
RACV Transport Quill
Royce Millar & Clay Lucas
The Age
Freeing Up the Gridlock
Highly Commended
Cameron Stewart
The Australian
Flying Blind
Highly Commended
Lisa Whitehead, Patrick Stone, Duncan Buchanan & Greg Field
7:30 Report, ABC
Taxi Ride
Best Columnist
Adele Ferguson
The Australian
Regulatory Failure
Highly Commended
Patrick Smith
The Australian
Taking the [...]
Ms Margaret Simons
The Council has received your letter of March 18 in which you and Jonathan Green raise a concern with material published in the Sunday Telegraph and other News Limited Sunday newspapers.
For your information, a copy of the Council’s principles and practices can be found on the Council’s website, http://www.presscouncil.org.au. [...]
March 18, 2009 – 12:32 pm
Mr Jack Herman
Executive Secretary
Australian Press Council
Suite 10.02
117 York Street
SYDNEY NSW 2000
18 March 2009
Dear Mr Herman,
We wish to lodge a complaint over the publication on 15 March 2009 by News Limited Sunday newspapers of pictures purporting to be political candidate Pauline Hanson.
At the time of writing, it seems likely that the photographs published were [...]
News industry watchers mourned the announcement that the Seattle P-I was closing and becoming an internet only newspaper. Today the Executive Producer of the new site, Michelle Nicolosi, makes an upbeat debut in whcih she says that b ecoming a standalone digital news and information business gives them an opportunity to try out the theories [...]
Over the last few days I have been having some back and forth email correspondence with News Limited’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Greg Baxter, concerning my reporting of the plans to change the way News Limited produces its features.
The correspondence mainly concerns his complaints and my responses, but it has also included a few things [...]
March 17, 2009 – 11:40 am
I’m a bit late coming in on this one, but the US State of the News Media report is out. It woudl be easy to get depressed reading it, but there are also signs of hope, chief amongst them the assertion that there is no evidence of declining public appetite for news and information.
On the [...]
