We had dildos in the paper today; the word “dildos” that is. Our reporter attended a public meeting on Tuesday night, called to discuss issues of concern regarding the Kalgoorlie Hospital. A local doctor said the hospital was “overrun by administrative dildos”. This prompted some discussion on the subs desk about how to spell the [...]
Blog credibility survey
Axinia brought my attention to a blog credibility survey (Deutsch). It shows that 26.4 percent of people don’t trust corporate blogs, but blogs by journalists are highly credible (trusted by between four and seven percent of readers). Well, that makes a nice change. Maybe it’s an urban myth, but I’ve heard of previous professional surveys [...]
Spiders on the march in Kambalda
This is an article by Phillipa Prior which appeared on page one of the Kalgoorlie Miner on Thursday, July 12, 2007. The image was created by Greg Tossel. Poisonous spiders caused fear in Kambalda this week and forced the closure of the town’s playgroup. Demolition worker Porky DeJong discovered a potentially dangerous red-headed mouse spider [...]
When bad news is good news
Journalists are probably the only people who get excited about bad news. We try to contain it and act respectfully in situations of grief, but there’s nothing like a big disaster to get the juices flowing. I took a call from The West Australian today, saying there was a Kalgoorlie connection to the London and [...]
Journalist vacancy
I’ve had a permanent vacancy for a senior journalist for most of this year. There’s a shortage of journalists in Western Australia at the moment. I’ve discussed this with other editors and university lecturers. It seems that many graduates drift into public relations, political work or other careers. I prefer not to employ graduates anyway. [...]
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