Columns & opinion

Rod Kirkpatrick: Obituary written too soon

Dec 13, 2012 at 05:13 pm by Staff

They don’t have country newspapers like that any more, do they? Run by the one family for three generations or more and printed on the family’s own press, with a b.... Read More

Robust, silly and serious? What to expect from Fairfax's new metro tabloids

Nov 29, 2012 at 06:21 am by Staff

Focus groups will see the first of a series of dummied-up Fairfax tabloids on Monday, designed to gauge reaction to the format chosen for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.... Read More

Rod Kirkpatrick: Leonora hoists the flag; the remarkable story of a north Qld publisher

Aug 30, 2012 at 11:58 pm by Staff

When the first sheet of the ‘Gulf News’ came off the press at the decaying Queensland goldfields town of Croydon in May 1930, the 21-year-old owner-editor Leonora.... Read More

From the Gulf to Fleet Street: Part II of the Leonora Gregory story

Aug 30, 2012 at 11:44 pm by Staff

On that first printing day for the ‘Gulf News’, owner-editor Leonora Gregory ran three hours late with the papers, but the postmaster kept the mail bags open. Hal.... Read More

Peter Coleman: The upside of churn and the love of (and within) newspapers

Aug 30, 2012 at 02:32 am by Staff

With all the focus on redundancies in newspaper companies, it’s good to look at the upside.Former publisher of the ‘Balmain & Rozelle Village Voice’ &nda.... Read More