Sony will feel right at home, much of the Guardianâs content is content dressed up as news.
Sounds reminiscent of the recording of the DDQ Toowoomba pre aggregation sackings. Available on YouTube.
More demonstration of their unashamed bias. As bad as The Australian is for the right.
We need more non partisan publications with a focus on integrity of news publishing.
Newspapers have always had op-ed pages, thatâs where opinions should be left, not in the articles.
This is a fact the Nine Newspapers have long abandoned and their bias certainly doesnât align with the conspiracy theory of news fitting the wishes of Chairman Peter Costello.
In her first media column for 2024 today, The Guardian Australiaâs Amanda Meade writes that the Sydney bureau of The New York Times has been quietly scaled back and is now under review. There are now just two locally based reporters left: bureau chief Damien Cave and Natasha Frost. Other staff members have moved to other roles within the paper.
Most people donât read the editorials. Newspapers have always influenced readers through columnists and also their Scott Palmer/Terry McCrann/Bruce Wilson-esque sports/business/politics correspondents.
And those columns are also marked as opinion, thatâs my point, theyâre marked as such.
Business as usual then. Theyâre virtually twins.
Thereâs a long write-up of Jeff Zuckerâs role behind RedBird in the Telegraph takeover in New York. It speculates Zucker is using the papers as a less-than-perfect target before getting CNN, but his UAE connections pulled Tories and Labour together against the consortium, that might ultimately reduce the deal to just debts.
Proven newsbreaker and respected commentator Peter van Onselen has joined Daily Mail Australia as its new political editor.
In his new role, Dr van Onselen will break exclusives and provide both political and social commentary.
A career reaching new depths.
Its final edition was published yesterday (Wednesday 18th April).
The Best Australian Yarn returns
Short story writers to compete for worldâs biggest prize
Australiaâs most popular short story competition, The Best Australian Yarn, is back with an even richer, world-best prize pool and an exciting new category.
The 2024 competition is now underway giving published and amateur writers the chance to share in an astonishing $80,000 prize pool across eight categories, with $50,000 going to the overall winner.
For the first time, prizes will be awarded for the best Comic Story, both in the general section and in the two youth categories.
Leading global education provider Navitas has again partnered with Seven West Media to sponsor the competition, which has attracted more than 10,000 submissions since its inception in 2022.
Australiaâs leading romantic fiction writer, Rachael Johns, has joined returning judges Robert Drewe, Terri-ann White, Rachel Bin Salleh and Holden Sheppard on the Prize Jury.
Indigenous affairs advocate and columnist for Seven West Media, Emma Garlett, returns as the ambassador for the First Nations Storytelling Prize and will be assisted in judging the category by dual Miles Franklin Award-winning author Kim Scott.
Seven West Mediaâs new national platform The Nightly joins the competition this year as a supporting partner, together with the WA branch of the Childrenâs Book Council of Australia, Writing WA, Department of Premier and Cabinet of WA, Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage of WA and the Perth Comic Arts Festival.
The Best Australian Yarn is the brainchild of Seven West Mediaâs Director of News and Current Affairs and Editor-in-Chief, Anthony De Ceglie, who wanted to inspire people who have a passion for writing and help put arts and culture at the forefront of Australiaâs identity.
Navitasâ Chief Executive Officer, Scott Jones, said: âAs a global education provider, we remain committed to offering the best opportunities for our students to grow and succeed every day. Similarly, The Best Australian Yarn provides writers of all ages and backgrounds across Australia with a platform to showcase their creativity and explore their talent as authors and storytellers.â
The Best Australian Yarn is open to all Australians aged 12 years and over. Entries must be original, unpublished works of fiction up to 2,500 words long and can cover any genre.
The total prize pool of $80,000 is split across these categories:
- Overall Winner - $50,000
- Runner up - $4,000
- Navitas ESL Prize - $3,000
- First Nations Storytelling Prize - $3,000
- Comic Story Prize - $3,000
- Regional Prize - $3,000
- Youth Prize - $3,000 ($1,500 each for entrants aged 12-14 and 15-18)
- Comic Story Youth Prize - $3,000 ($1,500 each for entrants aged 12-14 and 15-18)
- Eight shortlisted overall winner finalists - $1,000 each
Entries for The Best Australian Yarn are now open and close Monday, 12 August 2024.
The winners will be announced at a live-streamed awards night on Friday, 22 November 2024 at The State Library of Western Australia.
Further details can be found at www.bestaustralianyarn.com.au
The cuts include six editorial staff in Hong Kong and two reporters at the newspaperâs Singapore office, two sources familiar with the matter told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity.
In her memo, (WSJ editor-in-chief Emma) Tucker said âsome of our colleagues, mostly in Hong Kong, will be leaving usâ, while listing several new positions in Singapore, including an editor and several reporters.