Random thoughts and observations
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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
DOOMSAYERS have been predicting the demise of newspapers since the introduction of the wireless. The prophets of gloom became louder when television came along, then video and more recently the internet. Sorry to disappoint them, but newspapers in one form or another will be around forever. I spent most of last week in Melbourne at [...]
I have been working in the media industry for 20 years. I had 13 years as a reporter, editor and manager, then a five-year interlude in public relations before returning to newspapers early last year as editor of the Kalgoorlie Miner. We all learn through living and working. There is no substitute for life experience. [...]
