Certificates meet their end
The House of Representatives has passed a bill this week abolishing conclusive certificates, which gave ministers sweeping powers to keep documents secret. The MEAA believes this is a good first step along the way to open and accountable government but believes further improvements to the FOI Act are still needed. See our submission here http://tinyurl.com/pu2xsq.
Don’t mention it
Rupert calls time on journos’ unions, but Jeffrey Cole says newspapers will die first. Who is right? Or are they both talking through their hats? Join Australia’s only independent discussion about the future of our industry at http://www.thefutureofjournalism.org.au/the-debate and catch up with the latest news and views at http://www.thefutureofjournalism.org.au/the-reading-list.
Help a Reporter Out
Crowdsourcing website Help a Reporter Out has gone from a Facebook group to “serious business”, Wired reports this week. The site, which connects reporters with sources, is now averaging US$1M a year in revenue. See http://tinyurl.com/qncwag.
The ugly truth
American journalism website 10, 000 words has come up with a list of the 10 ugly truths about modern journalism, among them: “if it bleeds, it leads” and “journalists often write for each other rather than their readers”. See the full list here http://tinyurl.com/kjj2n4.
Courtesy of Australia's Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
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It's interesting, because I considered for a while that mainstream journalism disappeared so far up the advertising dollar's **** that it lost interest in connecting with readers or delivering news. Now that people aren't interested anymore, they're desperately trying to win them back. Ironic. Maybe, if instead of pushing all the media budgets toward capturing advertising dollars, editors did something radical like, oh I don't know, hiring some real journalists and paying them to undertake an old fashioned concept named investigative journalism, people might be interested in what they have to say again. Public interest and all... No amount of the media corporations flailing in the dark has stopped me from paying close attention to the likes of John Pilger, for example... ;)
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