Features
Falling down the miners' shaft
With the resources super tax it was politics, not policy, that ruled. Laura Tingle was gobsmacked at how some in the media swallowed the miners' line.
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda?
Online political journal New Matilda has closed for now, but editor Marni Cordell is still plotting
Get Ready: The news is coming
Harry Dugmore is helping to put the journalism back into citizen journalism, and it's working.
Thailand's Murky Political Colours
Reporting on the red-shirt riots in Bangkok was a particularly dangerous job for journalists, says P
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How Kevin fell (on Twitter)
21 July 2010When Kevin Rudd was toppled, the Twitterverse was first with the news. What will be its role in the federal election, John Bergin wonders.
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Power to the People
21 July 2010The internet will not save journalism, but John Nichols believes demanding citizens can.
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Why bother reporting the arts?
27 May 2010Even in fledgeling nations like East Timor, there's a strong case for including arts coverage among news priorities.
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Doing the business on smaller sheets
25 May 2010A world of media snobbery was laid bare when National Enquirer, the supermarket queue staple, was nominated for a Pulitzer, says Maxine Frith.
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Hay there!
17 May 2010Phil Brown was a vegetarian reporting on the Cattlemen’s Union, and he admits he knew nothing.
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South Pacific: struggling against censorship
3 May 2010A recent survey of Fijian journalists found that 100% felt they weren't free to report, and 100% had been censored. Sean Dorney spoke about the occasionally comical difficulties of reporting in the Pacific, at the Alliance's
