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Essays & Reportage
Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion
Murray Goot
12 March 2024
Is the
Australian
’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
Books & Arts
We’re not at war. We’re at work
Matthew Ricketson
14 February 2024
Former
Washington Post
editor Martin Baron reflects on Trump, Bezos and the challenges of journalism
Books & Arts
The first succession… and its consequences
Tom Greenwell
15 August 2023
Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
Essays & Reportage
Petty’s golden thread
Robert Phiddian
12 April 2023
The brilliant cartoonist illuminated Australia as it is, and as it could be
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?
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
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
Here is the news (good and bad) for local readers
Sora Park and Caroline Fisher
13 August 2020
Despite the shaky business model, the thirst for local news hasn’t gone away in regional Australia
National Affairs
How disasters are shaping Australians’ news habits
Sora Park, Caroline Fisher, Jee Young Lee and Kieran McGuinness
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
When the market for news fails
Tom Greenwell
27 May 2020
Journalists keep losing their jobs, but politicians on all sides are refusing to face the consequences
Essays & Reportage
The age of the news agency needn’t be over
Rodney Tiffen
19 March 2020
Vital reasons for the rise of Reuters, Australian Associated Press and other agencies haven’t gone away
National Affairs
Off the wire
Susan Forde
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
Publishers, platforms and policy détente
James Meese
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
On the Age’s river of gold
Iola Mathews
21 June 2019
Extract
| A former journalist recalls life on the newspaper during the era of legendary editor Graham Perkin
National Affairs
Brickbats and bouquets
Frank Bongiorno
23 April 2019
Election 2019
| Twitter has changed the landscape of political reporting, and there’s no going back
Books & Arts
Who owned the owners?
Michael Cannon
1 March 2019
Books
| As the power of newspapers grew, the real press barons increasingly hid their control with elaborate ruses
National Affairs
For sale: a local paper near you
Margaret Simons
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
Smiling villainy
Jane Goodall
18 January 2019
Television
| Mike Bartlett’s take on newspaper rivalry has a special kind of fascination
Books & Arts
Risky business
Robert Phiddian
4 January 2019
Books
| A year of cartoons reveals almost as much about the media as it does about politics
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
National Affairs
What you see is what you get
Peter Brent
12 September 2018
A News Corp cartoonist runs into trouble again
Essays & Reportage
Seymour Hersh, reporter
Matthew Ricketson
30 August 2018
Where does the famed journalist fit into the American pantheon?
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…
Essays & Reportage
Listening for the future
Deborah Jordan
13 August 2018
Nettie Palmer was a prolific and finely honed critic of Australian life and literature
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
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
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