National affairs
4 November 2024
Ahead of this week’s presidential election, billionaire newspaper owners have created a furore by blocking their editors’ endorsements
Essays & reportage
12 March 2024
Is the Australian’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
Books & arts
14 February 2024
Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron reflects on Trump, Bezos and the challenges of journalism
Books & arts
15 August 2023
Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
Essays & reportage
12 April 2023
The brilliant cartoonist illuminated Australia as it is, and as it could be
National affairs
8 October 2021
Did the campaign to punish Melbourne’s daily papers for questioning Dan Andrews’s government hit its mark?
National affairs
16 September 2021
With the Murdoch paper continuing to insist on a veto over adjudicators, it’s time for the industry body to bite the bullet
Essays & reportage
14 September 2021
A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituarists’ campaigning hero-journalist
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
13 August 2020
Despite the shaky business model, the thirst for local news hasn’t gone away in regional Australia
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
27 May 2020
Journalists keep losing their jobs, but politicians on all sides are refusing to face the consequences
Essays & reportage
19 March 2020
Vital reasons for the rise of Reuters, Australian Associated Press and other agencies haven’t gone away
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
Essays & reportage
21 June 2019
Extract | A former journalist recalls life on the newspaper during the era of legendary editor Graham Perkin
National affairs
23 April 2019
Election 2019 | Twitter has changed the landscape of political reporting, and there’s no going back
Books & arts
1 March 2019
Books | As the power of newspapers grew, the real press barons increasingly hid their control with elaborate ruses
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
4 January 2019
Books | A year of cartoons reveals almost as much about the media as it does about politics
National affairs
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
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
National affairs
12 September 2018
A News Corp cartoonist runs into trouble again
Essays & reportage
30 August 2018
Where does the famed journalist fit into the American pantheon?
Correspondents
27 August 2018
Letter from London | Australia’s political drama gives Britain respite from Brexit, along with a crash course in Canberrology
Essays & reportage
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…
Essays & reportage
13 August 2018
Nettie Palmer was a prolific and finely honed critic of Australian life and literature
National affairs
2 August 2018
Against expectations, Fairfax, Nine and the government are running up against the regulator
National affairs
31 July 2018
From the archive | The Age’s history shows how Fairfax’s strategy put the paper’s identity at risk