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Digital disaster proposal rejected
Michael Bodey
THE ABC has dismissed a suggestion from Victoria's Metropolitan Fire Brigade that its emerging digital TV services also be developed...
A paper without a town
Simon Canning
AS journalists from The Mountain Views Mail fanned out to capture the devastation that struck their community last Sunday, they had no...
PBL execs get a chance to recoup
Nick Tabakoff
PBL Media's owner, private equity firm CVC, has given up to 40 of its senior executives a second chance to recoup millions of dollars...
Crews weather Ingham's big wet
Padraic Murphy
FOR the media crews that managed to get to Ingham to cover the north Queensland town's worst flood in 30 years, it was a week of...
Bushfire 'overwhelmed' media
Sally Jackson
ON Saturday morning it was a hot-weather story, but by the afternoon it was a bushfire story and by evening it was a tragedy with at...
Journo's account revives memories
Pia Akerman
WHEN the fury of the Ash Wednesday fire swept over the stone farmhouse where Murray Nicoll lay hiding, the veteran Adelaide journalist...
Weather forecasting goes extreme
Lara Sinclair
FROM storms in Brisbane to heatwaves in South Australia, floods in northern Queensland and, finally, the drought, extreme heat and wind...
Miraculous recovery
GRANT Denyer’s interview with Jelena Dokic finally went to air yesterday on Seven’s Sunday Night, a week late due to the bushfires.
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Retail Consumer - Top Gainers & Losers
| Company Name | Price | Change | %Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STW Communications | 0.59 | +4.3 | UP | +7.27% |
| Macquarie Communications | 0.84 | +5.9 | UP | +7.00% |
| Amalgamated Holdings | 4.45 | +15.5 | UP | +3.48% |
| News Corporation | 11.02 | +23.5 | UP | +2.13% |
| Austereo Group Ltd | 1.07 | +2.0 | UP | +1.89% |
| APN | 1.50 | -3.0 | Down | -1.97% |
| Ten Network | 0.92 | -2.4 | Down | -2.65% |
| iCash Payment Services | 0.03 | -0.1 | Down | -3.71% |
| Prime Media Group | 0.95 | -4.8 | Down | -5.00% |
| MCM Entertainment Group | 0.10 | -3.6 | Down | -36.37% |
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Twitter comes alive
IN this era of media fragmentation, there's nothing like a big story to bring back the masses.
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Fire coverage hits sweet spot
YOU don't have to know Gary Hughes all that long before reaching the conclusion that he's a good bloke. It's difficult to remember the...
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Low blow for finance...
THE debate in Australia about "rumourtrage" has divided into two streams.
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Audi push for holograms
Simon Canning
MARKETERS have a new weapon in their arsenal after Audi last week became the first company in Australia to introduce a holographic...
Two-paper buyers cut back
Lara Sinclair
SUNDAY just is not Sunday for some publishers when readers who may have previously bought two newspapers are tightening their belts and...
Urgent need to save journalism
Mike Steketee, National affairs editor
JAMES Fallows has been one of the sternest critics of the profession he has been a prominent part of for more than three decades.
Ipsos grows
Lara Sinclair
IPSOS Australia expects to out-pace growth in the $600 million market research sector this year as it parades the global company's...
Online to show us the money
Lara Sinclair
PROVING online advertising works, measuring it and getting paid adequately for it will be among the top issues facing digital media...
Website key to Obama's success
Jane Schulze
THOMAS Jefferson was renowned as the first US president to harness the power of print. Similarly, Roosevelt used radio and JFK used TV....
Bouquets and brickbats for Nine
Amanda Meade
GRAZIA magazine's coverline this week was rather unfortunate. "Miranda Kerr on Fire", it said. And by Thursday, the David Jones model,...
Lesser lights outdo big guns
Amanda Meade
NOT since Naomi Robson's campervan rolled into Beaconsfield, Tasmania, have the stars of television news turned up in such force to...
Community turns to Auntie
Corrie Perkin
LAST weekend, Melbourne's 774 ABC radio became a modern-day community tom-tom.
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Fires: Bush telegraph at work
Matthew Clayfield
IT was an example of the old bush telegraph at work.
Storm sailor
Alexander Gilly
Self-made multi-millionaire Graeme Wood is not letting a little thing like the financial crisis restrict his life's passions.
Figures hide positivity
Majella Corrigan
The lowest interest rates since Robert Menzies was prime minister have fuelled optimism in a fearful market.
India's poor farmers plough into mobiles
Eric Bellman
EVEN amid the global economic slowdown, one Indian industry continues to boom: selling mobile phones to the rural...Clarkson here with mouth in top gear
Philip King
THE world according to Jeremy Clarkson is a place that doesn't have enough global warming but at least Australia is hot and unusually,...
It's a man's world
David Meagher, Wish editor
Veronique Nichanian has been designing the menswear collections for French luxury goods company Hermes for 20 years, a lifetime in the...
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Majella Corrigan
The top end of the real estate market is suffering from lower prices and decreased demand.
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Matthew Franklin, Chief political correspondent
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Early bushfire alert cover-up exposed
Jamie Walker and Natasha Bita
CANBERRA and the states baulked at a $20m telephone alert system that would have given early warning of the Black Saturday bushfires.
Call for outer-suburbs unis
Luke Slattery
AN estimated 20 new outer-suburban teaching universities will be needed to meet ambitious enrolment targets set by the Bradley review.
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