Essays & reportage
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
16 July 2021
No longer “crazy universities,” newsrooms are slowly adapting to a more challenging environment
National affairs
15 July 2021
Fear campaigns might suit government, but HIV/AIDS showed us what really works
National affairs
2 July 2021
The Press Council faces renewed calls for reform
National affairs
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
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
1 June 2021
The pandemic has brought out the best and the worst in journalism
National affairs
21 May 2021
Has the government broken its habit of making political appointments to the ABC board?
National affairs
11 May 2021
Objective? Balanced? Impartial? Three journalists debate the values newsrooms should reflect
National affairs
3 May 2021
The Nine papers’ well-intentioned attempt to improve coverage of political polls could have the opposite effect
National affairs
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
25 March 2021
A unique medium for disseminating academic research is celebrating its first decade
National affairs
19 March 2021
Trigger-happy state opposition MPs seem set on repeating the mistakes of the past
National affairs
12 March 2021
The media is entering challenging new territory. Let’s hope the reporters don’t get in the way of the story
Books & arts
8 December 2020
Books | How Lionel Barber rescued one of the world’s great newspapers
Correspondents
2 October 2020
Britain’s man-gets-job frenzy was less about Tony Abbott than it seemed
National affairs
21 September 2020
Structural shifts mean that Labor’s primary vote is only part of the election-winning equation
Essays & reportage
21 August 2020
Noel Pearson’s job guarantee plan meets its most powerful critic: the newspaper that published it
National affairs
13 August 2020
Despite the shaky business model, the thirst for local news hasn’t gone away in regional Australia
Books & arts
21 July 2020
Books | Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
International
30 June 2020
Clashes over a statue in Milan reveal complicated truths about the country’s postwar history
National affairs
25 June 2020
What happens when sport moves from the back pages to the front?
National affairs
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
14 May 2020
Malcolm Turnbull spilled the beans on Kerry Packer’s secret plans for Fairfax back in 1991. So why are his memoirs so coy about this key episode?
Essays & reportage
27 April 2020
How Malcolm Turnbull turned himself into an international figure
Books & arts
26 April 2020
Books | Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
National affairs
16 April 2020
Calls for a “national discussion” paper over the reality of an evolving crisis
National affairs
31 March 2020
Highly strung journalists aren’t doing anyone any favours tweeting about Covid-19
National affairs
26 March 2020
How can government fill the information gap at the heart of Australia’s strategy?
National affairs
20 March 2020
The coronavirus has exposed structural flaws in the way we prevent and treat ill health