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National affairs 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 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 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 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 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 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 Margaret Simons 24 September 2018 The departure of Michelle Guthrie exposes the weakness of the current ABC board and its strategy

National affairs 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 Peter Brent 12 September 2018 A News Corp cartoonist runs into trouble again

Correspondents 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 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…

National affairs Peter Brent 27 August 2018 Today’s Newspoll underlines how the change of leader didn’t play out in quite the way most people expected

National affairs Rodney Tiffen 23 August 2018 Malcolm Turnbull’s first stint as Liberal leader wounded him deeply, with ultimately fatal results. Another change of leader is likely to do the same to this government

Essays & reportage Laurie Oakes 13 August 2018 More than anyone, Warren Denning was responsible for initiating the ABC’s coverage of Canberra politics

National affairs Julian Thomas 2 August 2018 Against expectations, Fairfax, Nine and the government are running up against the regulator

National affairs 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 Frank Bongiorno 27 July 2018 Australia’s last great media upheaval gave Rupert Murdoch the green light to dominate the press

National affairs Margaret Simons 26 July 2018 Nine’s takeover is the logical outcome of bad media policy, and we’ll all live with the consequences

National affairs Rodney Tiffen 26 July 2018 When Channel Nine last tried to gain control of Fairfax, the broadcaster’s proprietor ran into trouble and an old friendship was sundered

National affairs Rodney Tiffen 7 July 2018 Are we seeing the destruction by stealth of the anti-siphoning rules?

Books & arts Megan Richardson 4 July 2018 Books | Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite

National affairs Frank Bongiorno 26 June 2018 Did the Ramsay Centre throw away its best chance by pushing ANU too far?

Books & arts Michael Cannon 5 June 2018 Books | Murdoch lieutenant Les Hinton doesn’t burn all his bridges in his frank new memoir

National affairs Sophie Black 29 May 2018 Are restrictive defamation laws discouraging Australian women from coming forward?

Correspondents Erin Handley 16 May 2018 Did journalists who left the Phnom Penh Post after its sale this month make the right decision?

International Sophie Black 24 April 2018 Facebook’s chief executive made a surprise admission to Congress earlier this month. Yet we’re in danger of letting him off the hook

Essays & reportage 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

National affairs Sophie Black 23 March 2018 #MeToo leapt to prominence by naming names, but it also kicked off a quiet revolution in the media (including a long-overdue New York Times obituary for Charlotte Bronte)

Essays & reportage Matthew Ricketson & Rodney Tiffen 22 February 2018 Michael Wolff’s book owes a large debt to the ethically grounded work of the journalists he professes to disdain

National affairs Peter Brent 19 February 2018 The mystery is why Emma Alberici’s article was published in the first place