Media

The copyright cops

When it comes to the prices they pay for copyrighted music, Australian consumers are being stung everywhere from the gym to the pub, writes Ben Eltham

15 Jul 10 |

Nine-tenths of the law

Sydney’s media moguls took off the gloves on a winter’s night in 1960 – and the Packers lost, writes Rodney Tiffen

03 Jun 10 |

The scandal that almost wasn’t

Why did most of the media run dead on the Securency bribery story, asks Peter Browne

25 May 10 |

If we don’t do it, who will?

Graham Perkin’s news editor, Geoffrey Barker, discusses Ben Hills’s biography of the legendary newspaper editor

12 May 10 |

Group thoughts

The Australian talks about climate change with (almost) one voice, writes Rodney Tiffen in this analysis of the paper’s coverage of the glacier controversy

01 Apr 10 |

A mess? A shambles? A disaster?

Most coverage of the home insulation controversy ignored history and avoided simple mathematics, writes Rodney Tiffen

26 Mar 10 |

Words in a time of war

Matthew Ricketson talks to journalist Mark Danner, in Australia for the launch of his book Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War

25 Feb 10 |

Why is Google buzzing?

Buzz brings Google closer to its goal of tracking every step we take, writes Vivienne Waller

17 Feb 10 |

The hole in their bucket

Media companies’ campaign against internet piracy suffered a major setback last week when a federal court judgement let internet service providers off the hook for their customers’ illegal downloads. But the copyright wars are more than just a matter for the courts, write Julian Thomas and Ramon Lobato

11 Feb 10 |

One-liners

The reporting of Kevin Rudd’s climate speech demonstrated the failings of the news media, writes Geoffrey Barker

10 Nov 09 |