February 3, 2009 – 12:58 pm
I’ve written before here about the newish online publication Inside Story, which is produced out of the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. (Declaration: I write for it, and am employed part time at the ISR).
Inside Story is an interesting example of what can be done now the barriers to entry in the media [...]
February 2, 2009 – 4:07 pm
No surprise to anyone (or at least not if you have been reading this blog) but Rod Quinn, editor of the Newcastle Herald, has just been announced as the new editor of the Canberra Times.
Here is the announcement to staff:
MEMO TO: ALL STAFF
FROM: GENERAL MANAGER
DATE: 2 FEBRUARY 2009
SUBJECT: APPOINTMENT [...]
January 29, 2009 – 3:01 pm
UPDATE: They’ve flushed it.
Oh my goodness me. Take a look at the front page of the Age website.
The story is about Google having to (ahem) wipe a picture of a man sitting on a backyard dunny from its Streetview service. But The Age hasn’t wiped it! The Age has splashed it! (Puns intentional).
The story reveals [...]
January 29, 2009 – 9:04 am
Extreme heat caused my computer to have a melt-down yesterday. There are disadvantages, after all, to having a writer’s garret in the roof.
This prevented me from reporting that the editor of the Newcastle Herald, Rod Quinn, was not at his desk in Newcastle yesterday or the day before, and he has reportedly been sighted in [...]
January 27, 2009 – 3:43 pm
The troops at the Canberra Times are feeling unloved since it was announced that the man they thought would be their next editor, Mick Millett, was going to the ABC instead. Doesn’t anyone want them?
This morning the newsroom was abuzz with a rumour that betrays how nervous they are feeling. It was along the lines [...]
January 22, 2009 – 1:56 pm
Mick Millett, who has been Deputy Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald, has taken up a post as Director, Communications, at the ABC. In the ABC Corporate Structure this is a key role, and he moves in to it at a key time.
The job is both internal and external communications, but perhaps most importantly it [...]
January 21, 2009 – 12:29 pm
UPDATE: The Michael Backman column has been removed from his website. His Wikipedia entry has been recently edited, and his Facebook page seems to be missing.
I was out frying other fish yesterday so did not catch up with the controversy consuming The Age newsroom until late afternoon. This morning as I ring around, it is [...]
January 16, 2009 – 1:02 pm
Michael Millett, presently deputy editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, has confirmed that he has been offered the editorship of the Canberra Times.
“I’m still making up my mind,” he said to me a few moments ago, but declined to say what factors he was weighing up in making the decision.
An announcement is expected towards the [...]
January 13, 2009 – 2:22 pm
I had a story in Crikey today about journalists – four last November – taking trips courtesy of the Israeli Government and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.
Of particular interest was the Sydney Morning Herald’s Paul Sheehan, who has failed to declare the fact of his sponsored trip in two columns written so far.
So what [...]
January 9, 2009 – 3:57 pm
A rumour made its way to me today that in the running for the job of editing the Canberra Times are Michael Millett, now deputy editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and Gay Alcorn, now editing the Sunday Age.
I rang both of them. Alcorn says these suggestions are news to her. She is happy editing [...]
