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Books & Arts
Doing the dirty work
Jane Goodall
24 July 2019
Television
| Does
The Loudest Voice
let the former Fox News supremo off too lightly?
National Affairs
Which crisis of trust?
James Frost
18 July 2019
Are concerns about Australians’ faith in politics and democracy being exaggerated by poorly presented research?
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
Liberals taking liberties
Norman Abjorensen
13 June 2019
The longstanding conflict between the Liberal Party’s conservative and liberal wings continues
National Affairs
Notes on an election
Peter Brent
7 June 2019
Dust settled, our correspondent pokes through the rubble
National Affairs
Shooting the messengers
Hamish McDonald
6 June 2019
This week’s AFP raids fit a pattern of crackdowns under the Coalition
International
Is it curtains for Italy’s master semioticians of the airwaves?
James Panichi
2 May 2019
The Radical Party’s broadcasting arm has been taking transparency seriously for more than four decades
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
Fights of our lives
Peter Browne
23 April 2019
How trust cuts both ways, how a British psephologist observed Australia, and how the tabloids are losing their power
Essays & Reportage
WikiLeaks deconstructed
Rodney Tiffen
18 April 2019
The upsides and downsides of the organisation and its controversial founder
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
National Affairs
How to sentence a priest
Jeremy Gans
19 March 2019
The Pell sentencing raises challenging questions about cases involving authority figures
National Affairs
Ending the franchise to exploit your franchisees
Tim Colebatch
15 March 2019
Only the
Age
and its siblings recognised the big story of the day
National Affairs
Pell’s freeze is over
Jeremy Gans
27 February 2019
In this case, above all, justice needed to be seen to be done
International
It’ll take more than one “good election” to fix America’s political culture
Rodney Tiffen
7 February 2019
How the United States has become more divided and out-of-step, in three charts
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
Podcasts
The revolution continues
Margaret Simons & Peter Clarke
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
The ACCC’s plan to reshape the media landscape
Margaret Simons
11 December 2018
Can government rise to the challenge thrown down by the regulator?
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?
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
Essays & Reportage
The sharp edge of soft power
Graeme Dobell
17 October 2018
Hard news and a free media are essential for Australian foreign policy — and that means we need a new, dedicated broadcasting organisation
National Affairs
Running with the pack
Peter Brent
8 October 2018
Fresh from their dismal toppling of Malcolm Turnbull, Sydney’s best-known media gang is targeting new victims and choosing new friends
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
More trouble at Ultimo
Margaret Simons
24 September 2018
The departure of Michelle Guthrie exposes the weakness of the current ABC board and its strategy
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?
National Affairs
What you see is what you get
Peter Brent
12 September 2018
A News Corp cartoonist runs into trouble again
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
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