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Essays & Reportage
The correspondent who saw too much
Melissa Roberts
3 October 2022
It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops
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
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?
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
Information warfare
Margaret Simons
8 October 2021
Did the campaign to punish Melbourne’s daily papers for questioning Dan Andrews’s government hit its mark?
Essays & Reportage
The trailblazer
Mark Baker
24 September 2021
Journalist Jan Mayman pioneered reporting of Indigenous deaths in custody
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
Essays & Reportage
Harold Evans, an editor in his time
David Hayes
14 September 2021
A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituarists’ campaigning hero-journalist
Books & Arts
Wood panelling and shoulder pads
Frank Bongiorno
3 September 2021
The Newsreader
shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change
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
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
International
Off-the-shelf spyware
Brett Evans
22 July 2021
We haven’t heard the last of Pegasus, the authoritarian government’s friend
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
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
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
Muting the messenger
Margaret Simons
12 March 2021
The media is entering challenging new territory. Let’s hope the reporters don’t get in the way of the story
Books & Arts
Crossing the war-reporting lines
Sara Dowse
5 March 2021
Books
| Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war
National Affairs
Winning the battle, still fighting the war
James Panichi
24 February 2021
Facebook’s problems with Australian regulators are far from over
Books & Arts
A hard nut in the centre
Susan Lever
18 December 2020
Books
| A writer’s complex life emerges in Helen Garner’s diaries
Books & Arts
Clipping his own ticket
Michael Gill
8 December 2020
Books
| How Lionel Barber rescued one of the world’s great newspapers
Essays & Reportage
Poet, writer, daughter
Cathy Perkins
7 December 2020
A daughter puts her mother’s reputation in the hands of her biographer
Correspondents
Captain Abbott’s pick
David Hayes
2 October 2020
Britain’s man-gets-job frenzy was less about Tony Abbott than it seemed
Books & Arts
The editorial eye
Richard Johnstone
26 September 2020
Behind Henri Cartier-Bresson and his high-profile colleagues at Magnum Photos was a talented backroom staff
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