Here’s news.com.au tonight trying to turn the news that an “independent” MP who mainly votes with the Coalition, Tony Crook, is officially returning to the Coalition – not changing the numbers in parliament in any meaningful way – into some kind of crippling defeat for the ALP: The move by Mr Crook, who has voted [...]

An article from AAP published on The Australian’s website yesterday afternoon raises the question of how much background information should news providers give to their audience about an unfamiliar topic. The headline of the story focussed on the politics of the issue: Liberal senator Cory Bernardi’s bid to curb Sharia banking dealt blow by colleague [...]

News agencies provide a low cost way for media organisations to get up to date content from regions where they don’t have a presence of their own. While different organisations running the same copy means that no-one gets an exclusive it also means that no-one gets humiliated by completely missing a story. The down side [...]