Columns & opinion

Peter Coleman: Transitions and taste, deadlines and displaced journos

Aug 26, 2013 at 04:50 am by Staff

As we’re going to press, a tumultuous week in which the local newspaper industry didn’t always display its best side. A headline in the Sydney Daily Telegraph in which the Mur.... Read More

Rod Kirkpatrick: Front line in a war of words

Aug 26, 2013 at 04:39 am by Staff

The Western Champion was conceived in Cooktown, Queensland, born in Blackall and lived most of its life in Barcaldine – a conservative newspaper that took root in the same soi.... Read More

Cousins and core values: Could Lachlan and Penny signal a new era?

Aug 08, 2013 at 09:01 pm by Staff

Something is afoot at News Corp Australia… and for the moment we’re going to have to speculate (writes Peter Coleman). It’s been a somewhat tumultuous week, starting with the.... Read More

John Juliano: Change is the new norm

Jun 30, 2013 at 09:12 pm by Staff

As GXpress goes to press, the week in the US revolves around Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old contractor to the national security agency who blew the whistle on US spying by te.... Read More

Rod Kirkpatrick: Long steps in four colonies

Jun 30, 2013 at 08:10 pm by Staff

Some of Australia’s pioneering newspaper publishers and printers are remembered only vaguely, often in imprecise and incorrect detail. They are in danger of gradually fading f.... Read More