The Editor in Chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, launches an extraordinary personal attack on academics daring to participate in the media enquiry, asserting, in respect of specific named people, they once: worked for The Australian and you would give them barely a pass mark as journalists A very serious assertion and if it was [...]

So many of us have tried to warn you of the impending apocalyptic hellscape that following the recommendations of the Finkelstein media inquiry will inevitably create in Australia: “This all comes from Finkelstein,” said one former press gallery member, now working incognito in a Hume Highway fast-food franchise and smuggling out precious analysis of internal [...]

“The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying ‘And another thing…’ twenty minutes after admitting he’d lost the argument.” -Douglas Adams, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish. Chris Mitchell, editor of The Australian, on Monday, cancelling an appearance by Paul [...]

The Australian’s editor-in-chief, Chris Mitchell, has been recognised with a special honour: THE editor-in-chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, has won the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence for leading the newspaper’s coverage of climate change policy. … For the first time, the judging panel presented the award to an editor rather than a reporter [...]