November 17, 2009 – 8:40 am
Further to my earlier post, the Larvatus Prodeo blog has more views on what is happening at the ABC, and the new post of Crikey editor Jonathan Green. Mark Bahnisch, the principle of Larvatus Prodeo, declares that he was an applicant for the ABC post that Green got. He notes that there was only a [...]
November 16, 2009 – 11:48 pm
Readers of the Crikey email and of this blog might well wonder what is going on at the organisation that pays my retainer.
Over the last week I have had to write two stories about events within Crikey. Last week I wrote about a $50,000 cut in the contributor budget, and today I had to announce [...]
November 13, 2009 – 11:22 pm
Mark Scott is now officially the darling of new media, says Marni Cordell in this thoughtful piece in New Matilda. But what about the kind of journalism that matters?
I am more of an enthusiast for Scott’s approach to ABC leadership than Cordell is, but I do think she has a point in what she says [...]
November 13, 2009 – 11:26 am
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am the Chair of the Foundation for Public Interest Journalism at Swinburne University, which is exploring a number of new models and initiatives for taking journalism forward in the new media age.
These include a community driven commissioning mechanism, similar in some ways to the San Francisco [...]
November 13, 2009 – 8:21 am
For those who missed it, on Wednesday the publisher of Crikey, Eric Beecher, took aim at ABC Managing Director Mark Scott over his international expansion plans, arguing that the greater need in this time of collapsing media business models was at home. Mark Scott responded in yesterday’s Crikey email, and there is a lively comments thread.
November 13, 2009 – 7:24 am
I listened in to the Fairfax Board Meeting via webcast on Tuesday for the purposes of filing for the Crikey email. The last couple of days have been very busy for me. I have been meeting a major deadline for a Griffith Review article (to be published in February) as well as doing some work [...]
November 9, 2009 – 8:30 pm
My competitor at Mumbrella has this interesting story about the ever blurring line between editorial and advertorial at News Limited.
In an offer to media agencies from News Magazines, advertisers who buy a $30,000 package of full pages ads across sports magazines Alpha and Australian Golf Digest receive a guaranteed product shot and copy in both [...]
November 9, 2009 – 2:10 pm
I have a story in the Crikey email today about the cuts in the Crikey contributor budget. The post before this one talks about the ticklish nature of writing about one’s employer.
But much more important is some of the content which may be lost. For the last two years, freelance journalist Melissa Sweet has supervised [...]
November 9, 2009 – 2:00 pm
It is now almost four years since Eric Beecher first approached me to ask me to write about media for Crikey. I remember that over coffee, we talked about the fact that, if I was to do my job properly, I would one day have to write about him and his businesses. He promised me [...]
November 9, 2009 – 8:39 am
How amusing. Amanda Meade’s Diary column in The Australian this morning retells part of the exchange between The Oz’s Caroline Overington and the Sydney Morning Herald’s Annabel Crabb about their publications’ various problems and prospects. But Meade has either self-censored, or been cut off at the pass by the sub-editors.
Overington had claimed The Australian was [...]
