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Essays & Reportage
The man who called himself “the Vagabond”
Michael Cannon
17 December 2018
A social justice pioneer’s secret life is unveiled in a new book
National Affairs
Reasonable doubts
Jack Waterford
30 November 2018
The AFP made a mess of investigating the murder of Colin Winchester and other crimes, so why is it the only Australian police force to have avoided an external inquiry?
National Affairs
The media’s pet
Jeremy Gans
26 November 2018
It’s had more than twenty-seven million downloads at last count, but what did
The Teacher’s Pet
really uncover?
Essays & Reportage
The door John Newfong nudged ajar
David Armstrong
21 November 2018
The pioneering Indigenous journalist played a key role in establishing the Tent Embassy in Canberra. His work has been recognised this month by the Australian Media Hall of Fame
Essays & Reportage
“When you work in a zoo it’s dangerous to get too friendly with the animals”
Laurie Oakes
21 November 2018
Despite his warning to young journalists, Alan Reid was both observer and player in Parliament House. His work has been recognised this month by the Australian Media Hall of Fame
Essays & Reportage
“There is this woman, Charmian Clift. And I have to dress up as her and go out and be her”
Margaret Simons
21 November 2018
The writer who remade the women’s column has been recognised by the Australian Media Hall of Fame
National Affairs
A broken record of quality journalism
Matthew Ricketson
15 November 2018
With Fairfax shareholders voting next week on the merger with Nine, it’s a good time to consider how well the company’s journalism has weathered a period of enormous change
National Affairs
How Nine and Fairfax sat the wrong test
Margaret Simons
9 November 2018
There’s a good reason why the ACCC didn’t block the Fairfax–Nine merger, and it tells us why government policy needs to change
Notebook
Inside Story: the first decade
Peter Browne
31 October 2018
Inside Story
is ten, and an anthology is on its way
Essays & Reportage
The beard of the prophet
Tom Fitzgerald
30 October 2018
A visit to Thirroul and the man who remembers D.H. Lawrence
Books & Arts
Messing about with boats and billionaires
Robin Jeffrey
24 October 2018
Books
| Two reporters find different ways to understand modern India
National Affairs
Stranger than fiction
Graeme Smith
10 October 2018
Two journalist–novelists compare notes on Chinese espionage
Essays & Reportage
Opening the windows in a stuffy room
Ken Inglis
26 September 2018
The influential fortnightly magazine
Nation
was launched in Sydney sixty years ago today. In this essay first published in 1989, one of its best-known contributors…
National Affairs
When Fairfax went to court
Sophie Black
24 September 2018
With the ACCC’s inquiry into the Nine–Fairfax deal continuing, has the NZ High Court given it a lead?
Essays & Reportage
Seymour Hersh, reporter
Matthew Ricketson
30 August 2018
Where does the famed journalist fit into the American pantheon?
Correspondents
British eyes on Canberra’s mess
David Hayes
27 August 2018
Letter from London
| Australia’s political drama gives Britain respite from Brexit, along with a crash course in Canberrology
Essays & Reportage
Keeping company: encountering the Fairfax Media archive
Bridget Griffen-Foley
27 August 2018
While Fairfax’s future seems likely to be in the hands of Nine, much of its past has recently been made accessible at the State Library of New South Wales. At a symposium…
Essays & Reportage
Alive to every pulse beat
Laurie Oakes
13 August 2018
More than anyone, Warren Denning was responsible for initiating the ABC’s coverage of Canberra politics
Essays & Reportage
Listening for the future
Deborah Jordan
13 August 2018
Nettie Palmer was a prolific and finely honed critic of Australian life and literature
National Affairs
“Of course they say there are no competition issues. They always do”
Julian Thomas
2 August 2018
Against expectations, Fairfax, Nine and the government are running up against the regulator
National Affairs
Keeping the Age noisy
Sybil Nolan
31 July 2018
From the archive
| The
Age
’s history shows how Fairfax’s strategy put the paper’s identity at risk
National Affairs
The end of Fairfax as we knew it
Margaret Simons
26 July 2018
Nine’s takeover is the logical outcome of bad media policy, and we’ll all live with the consequences
Books & Arts
The journo who never got away
Michael Cannon
5 June 2018
Books
| Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton doesn’t burn
all
his bridges in his frank new memoir
Essays & Reportage
Face to face with journalism’s future
James Panichi
26 March 2018
Politico
’s takeover of a sleepy weekly at Europe’s political epicentre promised great things. But something went wrong when the big stories began to break
Essays & Reportage
Between the covers
Diana Bagnall
20 March 2018
The problems at the Park Street headquarters of Bauer Media are a microcosm of an industry slowly adjusting to a blizzard of change
National Affairs
Why the ABC was right — eventually
Peter Brent
19 February 2018
The mystery is why Emma Alberici’s article was published in the first place
Essays & Reportage
You are no longer the product
Tom Greenwell
6 February 2018
Dutch news site
De Correspondent
represents a radical challenge to traditional journalistic practice. Now, it’s about to launch in the United States
Correspondents
The Guardian goes for broke
David Hayes
10 January 2018
Britain’s liberal beacon is scaling down but thinking big
Books & Arts
Farewell, Sylvia
Peter Browne
9 November 2017
Over a long career, Sylvia Lawson was a prolific contributor to newspapers and magazines, including the pioneering
Nation
, and
Inside Story
Books & Arts
Demanding the impossible
Tom O'Regan
8 November 2017
An appreciation of journalist, critic and film industry activist Sylvia Lawson, who died this week
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