December 18, 2008 – 2:54 pm
The Australian Newsagents’ Blog – always a good place for goss – has this to say about Fairfax’s plans over Christmas:
Circulation departments at Fairfax are confused about the company’s plans for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age over Christmas / New Year. People from Tower Systems have made eight calls to Fairfax in pursuit of [...]
December 16, 2008 – 8:55 am
As he prepares to leave for Doha and his new post, Max Uechtritz sent me some thoughts on how technology is developing and what this means for the ways we think about content – and what it may mean for Fairfax. He writes:
“Thought I’d just let you you can actually watch AlJazeera English [...]
December 15, 2008 – 12:25 pm
The Australian’s media commentator, Mark Day, isn’t often wrong. In fact, his closeness to News Limited CEO John Hartigan and other powerbrokers is enough by itself to make him worth reading. Plus he is shrewd and experienced, if taking a while to fully grasp what new media might mean.
But last week he took a couple [...]
December 10, 2008 – 11:41 am
I was trying to contact the editor of the Canberra Times, Peter Fray, last week to quiz him about whether he was indeed a front runner for the editor’s job at the Sydney Morning Herald, and he wasn’t answering. This morning I finally got through.
It’s a strange job interviewing another journalist. They know what you [...]
December 7, 2008 – 11:54 am
An interesting perspective on likely new Fairfax CEO Brian McCarthy, from the editor of the Border Watch, and former Rural Press employee Michael Gorey, who writes that after a period away from Rural, he reapplied for jobs in Bendigo and Ballarat only to be told:
“The manager there was honest enough to tell me I could [...]
December 5, 2008 – 2:05 pm
Before the wider Fairfax meltdown story broke this morning I was trying to find out who might replace Alan Oakley as Sydney Morning Herald editor.
Now it seems unlikely that anybody at Fairfax is applying serious thought to such things. IN fact the bigger question might be whether they will be able to persuade anyone to [...]
December 4, 2008 – 11:04 am
Some weird moral conundrums in the MP-photos affair, in which Labor backbencher James Bidgood flogged the photos he took of a man threatening to set himself alight on the lawns of Parliament House.
Michelle Grattan opined on the Radio National’s Breakfast show this morning that common human decency should have told Bidgood that what he did [...]
