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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
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…
National affairs
Notes from a prime ministerial assassination
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
The long shadow of 2009
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
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
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
Labor and the moguls
Frank Bongiorno
27 July 2018
Australia’s last great media upheaval gave Rupert Murdoch the green light to dominate the press
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
National affairs
How Packer slipped on Fairfax, with help from Malcolm Turnbull
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
It’s not (just) cricket
Rodney Tiffen
7 July 2018
Are we seeing the destruction by stealth of the anti-siphoning rules?
Books & arts
Privacy by design
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
The rise and fall of Western civilisation
Frank Bongiorno
26 June 2018
Did the Ramsay Centre throw away its best chance by pushing ANU too far?
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
National affairs
#MeToo gets closer to home
Sophie Black
29 May 2018
Are restrictive defamation laws discouraging Australian women from coming forward?
Correspondents
Cambodia’s media conundrum
Erin Handley
16 May 2018
Did journalists who left the
Phnom Penh Post
after its sale this month make the right decision?
International
Zuckerberg’s gift
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
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