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media
Books & Arts
Flame wars
Ryan Cropp
12 September 2022
Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause?
National Affairs
The podcast’s trial
Jeremy Gans
4 September 2022
Did
The Teacher’s Pet
hinder the conviction of Chris Dawson?
National Affairs
Diversity deferred, again?
Margaret Simons
16 December 2021
Another inquiry has made recommendations to improve media diversity. All that’s lacking is action
Books & Arts
Landscape of chaos
Jane Goodall
11 December 2021
A thread of wealth, power and celebrity ran through three of 2021’s high-profile season returns
Books & Arts
Tall-poppy lopping
Patrick Mullins
30 November 2021
A historian from across the Tasman has applied a forensic eye to one of the history wars’ greatest battles
National Affairs
Here we go again
Margaret Simons
25 November 2021
This time the election campaign needs to be reported differently
Essays & Reportage
The rise and fall of an Australian dynasty
Rodney Tiffen
22 November 2021
The Packers maintained their wealth and power through almost four generations. Then things went wrong
Essays & Reportage
Taking the arrows
Margaret Simons
12 November 2021
Gaven Morris leaves the job of ABC news director after six of the broadcaster’s most controversial years
National Affairs
Cracking the code
Margaret Simons
25 October 2021
Are Google and Facebook picking and choosing who they’ll deal with under the news media bargaining code?
Books & Arts
Is satire dead?
Jane Goodall
22 October 2021
Signs suggest the pen might no longer be mightier than the sword
International
Chateaued dream
Brett Evans
14 October 2021
The political risk was missing from the price tag of the Czech PM’s luxury hideaway
National Affairs
The Australian versus the Press Council, again
Margaret Simons
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
International
First kisses and invisible red lines
Linda Jaivin
3 September 2021
Chinese podcasts offer revealing, moving and sometimes funny insights into life in the People’s Republic
From the archive
The premier, the crime boss and the ABC
Margaret Simons
2 September 2021
Renewed allegations of corruption in 1980s New South Wales have reawakened strong feelings
Essays & Reportage
Was Neville Wran corrupt?
Rodney Tiffen
31 August 2021
The former NSW premier’s time in office was dogged by allegations, but do they stand up?
International
Get serious, world
Brett Evans
13 August 2021
It might be a very bad film, but
The Day After Tomorrow
has a message for today
Books & Arts
First, learn the language
Martha Macintyre
8 August 2021
Gillian Tett, the woman who predicted the global financial crisis, uses anthropological tools to probe how business works
From the archive
Is Sky News taking Australia by storm?
Margaret Simons
5 August 2021
Our media writer spends a fortnight watching the channel’s after-dark presenters preaching to the converted
Essays & Reportage
Fairfax’s blue team
Tim Burrowes
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
Bylines and bygones
Margaret Simons
16 July 2021
No longer “crazy universities,” newsrooms are slowly adapting to a more challenging environment
National Affairs
Reaper redux?
Daniel Reeders
15 July 2021
Fear campaigns might suit government, but HIV/AIDS showed us what really works
National Affairs
The watchdog that sometimes barked
Margaret Simons
2 July 2021
The Press Council faces renewed calls for reform
National Affairs
Understanding the Covid trust bump
Sora Park
23 June 2021
What lessons can be learned from the increase in news consumption and trust in the media at the height of the pandemic?
National Affairs
What Four Corners did and didn’t do
Margaret Simons
16 June 2021
Their origins might be murky, but Scott Morrison would be wise to deal more fully with the allegations about his friendship with Tim Stewart
National Affairs
When bravado trumps reporting
Margaret Simons
1 June 2021
The pandemic has brought out the best and the worst in journalism
National Affairs
Good news week
Margaret Simons
21 May 2021
Has the government broken its habit of making political appointments to the ABC board?
National Affairs
War in the newsrooms
Margaret Simons
11 May 2021
Objective? Balanced? Impartial? Three journalists debate the values newsrooms should reflect
National Affairs
Polling’s least-worst option
Peter Brent
3 May 2021
The Nine papers’ well-intentioned attempt to improve coverage of political polls could have the opposite effect
National Affairs
The arc of justice
Margaret Simons
24 April 2021
Journalism has a different role to play from the legal system. It begins with reporting the facts as the journalist understands them
National Affairs
Australian media’s latest export
Margaret Simons
25 March 2021
A unique medium for disseminating academic research is celebrating its first decade
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