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National Affairs
Here is the news (good and bad) for local readers
Sora Park and Caroline Fisher
13 August 2020
Despite the shaky business model, the thirst for local news hasn’t gone away in regional Australia
Books & Arts
The making of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Matthew Ricketson
4 August 2020
Books
| The influential
New Yorker
article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons
Books & Arts
Something somebody wants suppressed
Kieran Pender
21 July 2020
Books
| Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
International
Italy’s Black Lives Matter moment
James Panichi
30 June 2020
Clashes over a statue in Milan reveal complicated truths about the country’s postwar history
National Affairs
How disasters are shaping Australians’ news habits
Sora Park, Caroline Fisher, Jee Young Lee and Kieran McGuinness
16 June 2020
A new study tracks the rise in news consumption during the bushfires and the pandemic — and finds a glimmer of hope for publishers
Essays & Reportage
When the market for news fails
Tom Greenwell
27 May 2020
Journalists keep losing their jobs, but politicians on all sides are refusing to face the consequences
National Affairs
Journalists on the ramparts
Hamish McDonald
20 May 2020
Has the press gallery forgotten we’re not at war with China?
Books & Arts
The Prince
Frank Bongiorno
26 April 2020
Books
| Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
From the archive
The myth of the abusive protesters
Tom Greenwell
24 April 2020
Bestselling historian Paul Ham stands by allegations that anti–Vietnam war activists confronted veterans at airports and in the streets. But where’s the evidence?
From the archive
“My God, it would have been easier than I thought”
Mark Baker
24 April 2020
The Gallipoli campaign wasn’t the pointless disaster of Anzac mythology
National Affairs
The worst draft of history
Peter Brent
31 March 2020
Highly strung journalists aren’t doing anyone any favours tweeting about Covid-19
Books & Arts
A vernacular intellectual
Tom Griffiths
27 March 2020
“I would like to be read by the people I went to school with,” said the historian Ken Inglis. “And by my parents. And by my children.”
National Affairs
Filling in the missing rationale for Australia’s Covid-19 response
Daniel Reeders
26 March 2020
How can government fill the information gap at the heart of Australia’s strategy?
Essays & Reportage
The age of the news agency needn’t be over
Rodney Tiffen
19 March 2020
Vital reasons for the rise of Reuters, Australian Associated Press and other agencies haven’t gone away
Essays & Reportage
Going down from Melbourne
Stuart Macintyre
5 March 2020
Extract
| Historian Ken Inglis finds his vocation, reveals a talent for journalism, and embarks for Oxford
National Affairs
Off the wire
Susan Forde
5 March 2020
Conceived as a locally oriented source of world news, Australian Associated Press has fallen victim to a changing media landscape
Books & Arts
A beautiful time at the cinema
Brian McFarlane
14 February 2020
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys brilliantly capture real-life characters in this engrossing film
National Affairs
Millennial madness
John Quiggin
10 February 2020
Which generation has the biggest stake in the absurdities of the generation game?
National Affairs
Last gasp for the Packer mystique?
Rodney Tiffen
27 August 2019
His father’s media empire is long gone, but James Packer is still treated with kid gloves by both sides of politics
National Affairs
What the ACCC thinks about journalism
Margaret Simons
30 July 2019
Much has been written about what the regulator thinks of the big digital platforms, but what do its recommendations mean for reporting and analysis?
Essays & Reportage
On the Age’s river of gold
Iola Mathews
21 June 2019
Extract
| A former journalist recalls life on the newspaper during the era of legendary editor Graham Perkin
National Affairs
WIN or lose for rural viewers?
Gary Dickson & Margaret Simons
21 June 2019
Does the regional broadcaster’s decision to close more newsrooms breach its licence obligations?
National Affairs
Brickbats and bouquets
Frank Bongiorno
23 April 2019
Election 2019
| Twitter has changed the landscape of political reporting, and there’s no going back
National Affairs
Fraying empire
Rodney Tiffen
9 April 2019
The
New York Times
has illuminated a key period in the evolution of Rupert Murdoch’s businesses, but its coverage of the mogul’s Australian activities is less helpful
Recovered Lives
A slight bias towards eels and lizards
Emily Gallagher
8 March 2019
Ella McFadyen (1887–1976), writer and editor
Recovered Lives
Another brilliant career
Alexandra McKinnon
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
Books & Arts
Who owned the owners?
Michael Cannon
1 March 2019
Books
| As the power of newspapers grew, the real press barons increasingly hid their control with elaborate ruses
National Affairs
For sale: a local paper near you
Margaret Simons
3 February 2019
Private equity forms are reported to be circling the regional papers Nine Entertainment inherited from Fairfax. What is at stake?
Books & Arts
Smiling villainy
Jane Goodall
18 January 2019
Television
| Mike Bartlett’s take on newspaper rivalry has a special kind of fascination
Books & Arts
Requiem for the World Wide Web
Tom Greenwell
9 January 2019
Books
| Matthew Hindman offers illumination for a disillusioned age
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