This is my first effort at video journalism. I took some footage of the football fiasco in Kalgoorlie when one club forfeited because of concerns with the condition of the oval.
We posted it to the Kalgoorlie Miner web site after I uploaded it to YouTube. The video was made using a digital camera.
It’s 42 degrees in Kalgoorlie today, continuing a run of hot, dry weather.
I was working for the second Sunday in a row and had to sub nine pages. Fortunately, the reporter (also a sub) and the photographer had everything ready to go early this morning and it was a smooth run, except …
The power went [...]
This is a good example of successful integration between newspaper and web publishing.
The final print production deadline of the Kalgoorlie Miner is (sadly) 4.45pm. An off-duty reporter heard at 5.30pm there had been an escape from the Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison.
She called me and I put our web staff on standby while the reporter went [...]
Newspaper offices are nutter magnets. The vast majority of people who contact newspapers are sane and rational, but there is a significant fringe group of nuts.
Classic behavioral symptoms include irrational abuse, attention seeking and pure wackiness. The latter is the most amusing, although the others have their humorous moments.
A few months ago I received an [...]
I’m pleased to publish the first report of a Kalgoorlie Miner journalist winning a state media award tonight:
A Kalgoorlie Miner journalist won a prestigious prize at the 2007 WA Media Awards. Phillipa Prior won the award for the three best news stories or features published in a country newspaper. The awards recognise outstanding media work [...]
According to The Age, Media Watch presenter Monica Attard is standing down after two years, which she considers long enough in an “extremely taxing” position. The Australian says the show’s producer Tim Palmer is also moving on.
Most responsible positions are personally demanding, so I find Attard’s explanation a little strange. I wonder how long she [...]
An unusual accident occurred this week at a workplace I’m familiar with. I won’t name anyone to avoid embarrassing them.
It seems a group of colleagues were sitting around waiting for a picture of the Hannans Handicap winner and decided it was a good idea to open a bottle of wine.
Alas there was no corkscrew. Much [...]
I came across a fascinating profile of New York Post editor, Australian Col Allan by Lloyd Grove.
I never knew much about Allan, and didn’t game him any thought until the Kevin Rudd strip club report. Allan sounds a real larrikan.
The above front cover, after Paris Hilton was released from jail, shows his “style” and humor. [...]
I rejoined the Media Alliance this week after a break of 15 years. We had an active sub-branch when I worked in Gippsland as a young reporter and I was a member from 1987 to 1992.
I recall persuading the boss at Bairnsdale to let a group of us take a company car to a meeting [...]
I had an interesting email from a communications consultant wanting feedback on letters to the editor. He wrote:
I’m currently engaged on research into the effectiveness of “letters to the editor” published in national and local newspapers in Australia. I am particularly interested in the readership of letters to the editor, the extent to which letters [...]
