Essays & reportage
12 March 2020
What are the lessons of overseas Covid-19 responses for Australian policymakers?
National affairs
5 March 2020
Conceived as a locally oriented source of world news, Australian Associated Press has fallen victim to a changing media landscape
National affairs
20 February 2020
As the implications of the ACCC’s recommendations on digital platforms continue to unfold, the political challenges aren’t getting any easier
National affairs
10 February 2020
Which generation has the biggest stake in the absurdities of the generation game?
Books & arts
29 January 2020
Books | To an alarming degree, reality TV matches how Donald Trump sees the world
Correspondents
11 December 2019
A fragmented election campaign nears its big reveal
National affairs
4 October 2019
The prime minister’s style has proved effective so far, but does it contain the seeds of its own failure?
Books & arts
9 September 2019
Television | Wealth is a means rather than an end in the second season of Succession
National affairs
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
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?
Books & arts
24 July 2019
Television | Does The Loudest Voice let the former Fox News supremo off too lightly?
National affairs
18 July 2019
Are concerns about Australians’ faith in politics and democracy being exaggerated by poorly presented research?
Essays & reportage
21 June 2019
Extract | A former journalist recalls life on the newspaper during the era of legendary editor Graham Perkin
National affairs
13 June 2019
The longstanding conflict between the Liberal Party’s conservative and liberal wings continues
National affairs
7 June 2019
Dust settled, our correspondent pokes through the rubble
National affairs
6 June 2019
This week’s AFP raids fit a pattern of crackdowns under the Coalition
International
2 May 2019
The Radical Party’s broadcasting arm has been taking transparency seriously for more than four decades
National affairs
23 April 2019
Election 2019 | Twitter has changed the landscape of political reporting, and there’s no going back
National affairs
23 April 2019
How trust cuts both ways, how a British psephologist observed Australia, and how the tabloids are losing their power
Essays & reportage
18 April 2019
The upsides and downsides of the organisation and its controversial founder
National affairs
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
National affairs
19 March 2019
The Pell sentencing raises challenging questions about cases involving authority figures
National affairs
15 March 2019
Only the Age and its siblings recognised the big story of the day
National affairs
27 February 2019
In this case, above all, justice needed to be seen to be done
International
7 February 2019
How the United States has become more divided and out-of-step, in three charts
National affairs
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
18 January 2019
Television | Mike Bartlett’s take on newspaper rivalry has a special kind of fascination
Books & arts
9 January 2019
Books | Matthew Hindman offers illumination for a disillusioned age
Podcasts
31 December 2018
A decade after her first interview with Inside Story, writer and media analyst Margaret Simons talks to Peter Clarke about ten years of change, and…
National affairs
11 December 2018
Can government rise to the challenge thrown down by the regulator?