I wrote a book chapter which was published last year in the collection Australian Journalism Today that talked about journalism, digital media, and privacy. I quote from the draft here; this concluding section on “Journalism as a defender of privacy” seems relevant in the light of The Guardian’s outstanding work on the NSA scandal: Prominent …

Just a late arvo quickie on Crikey publisher Eric Beecher’s red hot go at The Drum, which the Australian featured prominently in its media section today. Key paragraph from Lara Sinclair’s story: “As a huge supporter of the ABC, I have been somewhat shocked at (the ABC’s) decision to create a website (The Drum) that …

I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading in preparation for a long essay on you know what. A couple of quotes I thought I’d share by way of a post this week. The first is from James W. Carey’s wonderful essay. “American journalism on, before and after September 11?, in the 2002 collection Journalism …