Bull ‘mafia’ celebrates key milestone
MELBOURNE, April 4, 2013: Between them these five men can boast more than 200 years as iconic Australian news image-makers and photography is well and truly embedded in their lineage. […]
Royal commission presents challenges for Australia’s newsrooms
SLATED to run at least three years, with an interim report due in mid-2014 after initial public hearings, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse presents Australian […]
On the road: Maldon Easter Parade
Easter Monday this year was spent very differently, thanks to the good folk of Maldon in central Victoria. At 10.30am sharp, the town’s sizeable annual Easter Parade got under way […]
Aussie-designed Disaster Reporting course starts in Caribbean
Reporting disasters is a complex, demanding and sometimes risky activity for journalists. However, the amount of workplace preparation for such coverage can sometimes be limited. Over the past few months, […]
The year of living dangerously revisited
September 11, 2005 marked the fourth anniversary of the shocking terrorism attacks in the US, an incredibly difficult and confronting assignment for any journalist covering the horrors as they unfolded […]
Brisbane’s transport network flawed
If peak oil theories prove correct, and all signs are that they will, access to shrinking amounts of oil is the likelihood we must all face over coming decades. Yet what […]
Brushing up your writing skills
Want to polish your writing style? Need to improve your grammar? Want to understand more about English writing rules? Then check out Towards a working grammar for journalists, a handy booklet co-written […]
Go card penalises wary transport users
WHAT is it with “a lot” of Translink’s go cards expiring before the cash stored on them has been spent? And why, when this happens, should commuters be forced to […]
Style matters #4: When ‘wake’ is a fright
Increasingly we are reading/hearing the phrase “in the wake of …” If one is referring to the disturbed water behind a boat, then that’s fine. For everything else, why not […]
Style matters #3: Where did ‘fewer’ get to?
We’d always been taught that decreasing numbers of things that could be counted – such as objects or people – were fewer in number, while falling volumes – such as […]
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