Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC responds to CSG industry complaint – Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 11:07
“The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) lodged an official complaint about the ABC’s website, Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers. Following is the ABC’s public response to that complaint. …”
Sydney Morning Herald: New form of journalism must adhere to old rules
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 16:27
Pollster Mark Textor: “Too often, data journalists suddenly pretend to be experts. But a journalist is a not a mathematician or statistician. With data journalism that is exactly what they pretend to be. They imagine they are something way beyond the p…
The Australian: Fairfax Media loses copyright battle
Thursday, 9 September 2010, 12:44
"The Federal Court has ruled against Fairfax Media's attempt to claim copyright over headlines in The Australian Financial Review. The decision is seen by the publishing industry to have significant implications for the reproduction of newspaper articles."
Sydney Morning Herald: Publishers warned: charge and be damned
Saturday, 17 October 2009, 12:06
"Drawing on a panel of 7000 online users in Australia, Nielsen argued yesterday that in contrast to newspaper readers, consumers on the internet did not show enough loyalty to any particular news provider to subscribe to a provider's coverage."
The Australian: Papers must return to core business
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 07:34
Michael Gawenda: "Newspapers need to be in the business of news, but they need to report news that only a newspaper can do well. The rest – reports of news conferences, PR-driven events, announcements – all of that can go online. Newspapers need to get smaller, clearer in their focus. Most of the lifestyle sections should migrate to online. Newspapers must not become what The Independent in Britain has become: in the phrase used by its present editor, a viewspaper. The internet is awash with commentary."
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.
