People often ask me when will the Kalgoorlie Miner have a web site? Well it won’t be long. The site is currently under development and should be launched by the end of the year. The core site will publish news, general information and classifieds. We have some exciting plans to add community content on a [...]
Bad news
Some people seem to think that newspapers delight in publishing bad news. As an editor I admit that bad news, tragedy and conflict often help to sell papers. That says something about human beings, I think, rather than newspapers. From a personal perspective I prefer to focus on the positive but unless you're colorblind or [...]
Coincidence
Fate has delivered a couple of interesting coincidences in the past week. Firstly, a friend I hadn't seen for more than 15 years contacted me at work. I met Carol, from Zimbabwe, at Alice Springs in 1988 and visited her in Harare and Kwe Kwe in 1990. It turns out she has been living in [...]
Phone tone rage (PTR)
A Kalgoorlie Miner columnist, Kitty Prodonovich, wrote today about “phone tone rage” (PTR). It is quite amazing how the repetitive tones from an innocent little phone can incite so much anger and frustration, but they do. And it’s not just the phone rings; you can also have different sound for message alerts and other thing. [...]
Vice-regal visit
The Governor of Western Australia, Dr Ken Michael, has been visiting Kalgoorlie-Boulder this week. We had the honour of hosting him for a tour of the Kalgoorlie Miner building. He seemed to enjoy it, especially meeting the staff and seeing the old machinery. He suggested we should work towards establishing a newspaper museum, which is [...]
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