Canberra Times: The real threat to newspapers comes from quality not quantity
Sunday, 31 August 2008, 11:29
"The big challenge for any professional journalist … is that a good proportion of readers probably more than 30 per cent here know more about your subject than you do … This reader is in a very good position to know where a journalist is right or wrong, to guess about the sources of different perspectives or angles introduced into a story, or to decide whether a report adds value to what was already known. One's reputation ultimately depends on this market's assessment of one's reliability. And it is from this 'knowing' audience that one gets most of one's stories."
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 10:10
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‘[Australian] company Fairfax has admitted its journalists are too old to attract the next generation of readers. … "
Monday, 21 January 2008, 12:28
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"An underground market for the new unauthorised Tom Cruise biography has sprung up on auction site eBay, with Australian buyers willing to pay a significant premium for the book."
Friday, 14 December 2007, 08:32
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"Blogs have never completely lived up to their early hype. They haven’t made many bloggers rich, or ushered in a new era of ‘citizen journalism’, or wrested control of political debates from the mainstream media. But they are gaining political importance.
Friday, 7 December 2007, 11:42
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New floor-to-ceiling panels in the newsroom of News Corp’s Australian rival Fairfax show a picture of… Rupert Murdoch.
Friday, 9 November 2007, 16:09
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"Australian cricket authorities came under fire on Friday for preventing some news organisations from covering the first test match against Sri Lanka, as a boycott of the event by international news groups continued."
Saturday, 29 September 2007, 13:18
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Dan Sabbagh’s media column covers some Google’s Austalian general election site, Google News, Digg, Matt Drudge’s effect on Mail Online’s traffic in the US, and the slow online takeup of a print campaign in the Sun and the Telegraph. Whew.
Covering a General Election, Google style
Monday, 17 September 2007, 12:17
Google Australia has launched a site to cover that country’s 2007 federal election using many of its existing tools.
As TechCrunch reported, the site combines links party-political YouTube videos, a Google Maps mashup containing information on candidates by constituency, “election gadgets” to let users of Google personalised homepage track statements from MPs and Senators, plus [...]
Monday, 17 September 2007, 07:40
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Alan Mutter thinks Google’s Australian election site is the company’s "boldest-yet intrusion into the formerly sacred space of the MSM" and a trial run for a bid to hijack election traffic US media sites will get next year.
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:54
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Peter Preston looks at newspaper circulation figures: "Perhaps it isn’t demonic digitalisation that’s bringing us down, dear friends. Perhaps it’s just us - and what we produce. And perhaps we’re too damned morose about change."
