Random thoughts and observations
There are lots of angry people in the world and local newspapers do a good job of reporting them. In fact, local newspapers would struggle to fill their pages if it wasn’t for all the anger out there.
A dedicated website publishes press photographs of angry people. As the author says: “I feel sorry for local news photographers. They are hugely skilled and poorly paid, and sent out to photograph miserable people pointing at dog turds. Here, we celebrate their work.”
Newspaper photographers are a dying species. The Guardian explains why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers.
It mentions The Independent in England, the Daily Mirror and regional UK publisher Archant.
Newspaper photographers are in retreat. Staff jobs are vanishing as publishers look for new ways to cut costs.
I don’t get as much time as I would like to browse digitised newspapers at the National Library’s marvellous Trove.
However, a brief visit today yielded an interesting snippet regarding my great-great grandparents James and Sarah Evans.
I knew from Shire of Metcalfe rate books they owned a property at Barfold in Central Victoria between 1866 and 1876.
The Border Watch celebrated its 150th anniversary this year. I’ve just read the excellent anniversary supplement, which chronicles the paper’s history. I retain a fondness for all the newspapers where I worked. I think my special favorite is the West Coast Sentinel at Ceduna because that was my first posting as editor and the town has a frontier feel. Similarly, the Kalgoorlie Miner will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s a proud daily newspaper in the heart of Western Australia’s Goldfields.
Newspapers should have done better than the Adelaide Advertiser’s “Animal rescue” headline when reporting Adelaide Zoo’s $24 million debt. The Australian was closer to the mark with “Adelaide Zoo finds pandas hard to bear”. The best effort was from Advertiser cartoonist Jos Valdman, who showed red-colored pandas, with a caption: “I know we’re in the [...]
