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LESSON 21: You gotta know how to fold them With a penchant for running headings and images across […]

August 1, 2021 Australia, Breaking News, business, Exclusive, Media, Politics

Should this sub be be-headed?

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Writing headings can be (or should that be ‘once was’?) the most interesting aspect of a sub-editor’s craft, […]

March 6, 2021 advertising, Breaking News, Media, Politics, Publishing

MIND THE GAP!

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Lesson 23: Heading writing across the gutter Have we left this lesson far too late in the B-School […]

November 29, 2020 Exclusive, Media, Publishing, United Kingdom

Fourth estate’s role becoming paper thin

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This is not so much an error-pinpointing, snickering edition of the Glass House but a nostalgic one tinged […]

June 24, 2020 Australia, Breaking News, Exclusive, Media, Politics

The Rupeatrophication of Bevan’s brain

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MEDIA: Has the SMH’s Bevan Shields joined that elite group of Australian journalists whose more accurate job description […]

August 19, 2019 Australia, Australian politics, Breaking News, Media, Politics

Ads only add to the problem

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Power pair in furious agreement The Guardian website has reported that “revenue at the Australian mastheads run by […]

August 10, 2019 Australia, Entertainment, Literature, Media

Ouch! I’ve just been editored

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BOOK PREVIEW: The death this week of former editor of The Courier-Mail Kev Kavanagh at the age of 93 […]

August 7, 2019 Australia, Australian politics, Media, Politics, Publishing

#12: Nailing the intro

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The intro is the first paragraph in a news story and as a consequence of that it comes […]

July 30, 2019 Australia, Australian politics, Breaking News, Media, Politics

Spotting a yarn that’s sub-standard

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MEDIA: One of the few joys left in life for retired hack newspaper scribes is to look at […]

July 21, 2019 Australia, Australian politics, Breaking News, Media, Politics

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