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Essays & reportage Ann Curthoys, John Docker and Lyndall Ryan 7 February 2023 On Netflix and in print, the couple’s story has been informed by a historical perspective with implications for Australia
National affairs Margaret Simons 27 January 2023 The robot can tell you what everyone else thinks — and that creates an opportunity for journalists Essays & reportage Fiona Gruber 16 December 2022 Journalist Jill Jolliffe’s work took her around the world, but her commitment to East Timorese independence endured Books & arts Andrew Dodd 2 November 2022 A new biography of Rupert Murdoch’s successor throws indirect light on why he is suing Crikey Books & arts Gideon Haigh 1 November 2022 Hired young by Keith Murdoch, Michael Cannon made his name as a journalistic roustabout and gifted historian
National affairs Daniel Reeders 31 October 2022 $8 billion lost each year in Medicare fraud, errors and over-servicing? The evidence doesn’t add up
Books & arts Geoff Wilkes 4 October 2022 Joseph Roth’s restless journeying produced an idiosyncratic depiction of central Europe in the twenties and thirties Essays & reportage Melissa Roberts 3 October 2022 It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops National affairs Margaret Simons 16 December 2021 Another inquiry has made recommendations to improve media diversity. All that’s lacking is action Essays & reportage Margaret Simons 12 November 2021 Gaven Morris leaves the job of ABC news director after six of the broadcaster’s most controversial years
National affairs Margaret Simons 25 October 2021 Are Google and Facebook picking and choosing who they’ll deal with under the news media bargaining code?
International Brett Evans 14 October 2021 The political risk was missing from the price tag of the Czech PM’s luxury hideaway National affairs Margaret Simons 8 October 2021 Did the campaign to punish Melbourne’s daily papers for questioning Dan Andrews’s government hit its mark? Essays & reportage Mark Baker 24 September 2021 Journalist Jan Mayman pioneered reporting of Indigenous deaths in custody National affairs Margaret Simons 16 September 2021 With the Murdoch paper continuing to insist on a veto over adjudicators, it’s time for the industry body to bite the bullet
Essays & reportage David Hayes 14 September 2021 A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituarists’ campaigning hero-journalist
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 3 September 2021 The Newsreader shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change From the archive Margaret Simons 2 September 2021 Renewed allegations of corruption in 1980s New South Wales have reawakened strong feelings Books & arts Martha Macintyre 8 August 2021 Gillian Tett, the woman who predicted the global financial crisis, uses anthropological tools to probe how business works International Brett Evans 22 July 2021 We haven’t heard the last of Pegasus, the authoritarian government’s friend
Essays & reportage Tim Burrowes 16 July 2021 Based in a nondescript office in inner Sydney in 2016–17, a secret team set about saving the publisher’s newspapers  
National affairs Margaret Simons 16 July 2021 No longer “crazy universities,” newsrooms are slowly adapting to a more challenging environment National affairs Margaret Simons 2 July 2021 The Press Council faces renewed calls for reform National affairs Sora Park 23 June 2021 What lessons can be learned from the increase in news consumption and trust in the media at the height of the pandemic? National affairs Margaret Simons 16 June 2021 Their origins might be murky, but Scott Morrison would be wise to deal more fully with the allegations about his friendship with Tim Stewart
National affairs Margaret Simons 1 June 2021 The pandemic has brought out the best and the worst in journalism
National affairs Margaret Simons 11 May 2021 Objective? Balanced? Impartial? Three journalists debate the values newsrooms should reflect National affairs Peter Brent 3 May 2021 The Nine papers’ well-intentioned attempt to improve coverage of political polls could have the opposite effect National affairs Margaret Simons 24 April 2021 Journalism has a different role to play from the legal system. It begins with reporting the facts as the journalist understands them National affairs Margaret Simons 12 March 2021 The media is entering challenging new territory. Let’s hope the reporters don’t get in the way of the story