A local businessman told me today the paper is too negative. “You have a responsibility to be positive about the town,” he said.
I respect the man and he expressed a commonly held view, so I don’t deride it.
As an editor, it has always been my philosophy to choose a good positive story over a good [...]
This takes the prize for the worst media release I’ve seen for a long time.
The headline is unbelievably: “Councils oppose corruption”. Wow! Do they really?
It’s from the Local Government Association of South Australia. It would be more newsworthy, of course, if they supported corruption.
The introduction is nonsenical:
SA’s Local Government Association has expressed confidence in SA’s [...]
It sounds like the remains of missing Myrtleford toddler Daniel Thomas may have been found today after human bones were discovered under a house in the North East Victorian town.
Daniel went missing in October 2003.
The house is the one Daniel’s mother Donna Thomas and babysitter Mandy Martin rented together when Daniel was reported missing. Ms [...]
I came across Rapleaf tonight. It’s an online reputation lookup service. Rapleaf’s goal is “to make it more profitable to be ethical”.
The rationale: “Building a positive reputation is necessary in making the world a better place. Prove your trustworthiness wherever you go and feel confident in the identities of the people you deal with [...]
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 [...]
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. I [...]
In an extraordinary admission, the Howard Government today conceded it “got it wrong” when Work Choices laws were introduced without proper protection for those losing benefits.
This is cynical, desperate behavior, bad politics and bad public relations. In my view it’s also a lie that the government didn’t know that was a possible consequence.
“We got [...]
Days are sometimes tagged for marketing purposes. You know what I mean: Walk to School Day, World Kidney Day, Red Balloon Day, White Ribbon Day, etc.
Sometimes the day takes off and becomes an extravaganza like Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. Sometimes they get big for a few years and then fade away, like Red Nose [...]
Friday, May 4 is Walk Safely to School Day : a noble cause that’s worth supporting, to be sure. Indeed, it is “a Community Event seeking to promote Road Safety, Health, Public Transport and the Environment” (their inappropriate capitals, not mine).
Like many newspapers across Australia, the Kalgoorlie Miner is pleased to help promote this [...]
I’ll be interested to see what sentence gets handed down in the case of a PR consultant who pleaded guilty to three charges of insider trading.
Margot Olive McKay was the principal of a firm that worked for Aristocrat Leisure. She bought $148,000 of Aristocrat shares through relatives after proof reading positive company reports [...]
