Wendy Bacon is a contributing editor to NewMatilda and has reported for Crikey, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Conversation in recent times. She is an investigative journalist with a background in social activism who worked at…
“Big Bang Theory a Bust” is the way News Corp is peddling this two-year old story about Roger Penrose’s “Conformal Cyclic Cosmology” model for explaining concentric circles of…
Reading Zite on my iPad tonight and saw this headline: Drilled down into the story to discover the young guy in the photo is actually NOT a victim…
I went looking for a house cleaner today and ended up on News.com.au’s TrueLocal site. I found someone in my area, clicked on their ad, then tried to…
Bronwen has written a great piece explaining, once again, why newspapers (and the companies behind them) are at the end of the road. Of course the argument for…
Pick any mainstream news brand site – News.com.au or TheAge.com.au – and take a look at the front page. Now, tell me – if you had to pay…
I was doing an email interview with a journo this morning about the introduction of digital radio in Australia and I was asked if I thought, as the…
I’m running a twtpoll today about the launch of ‘digital radio’ in Australia. Of course, as far as I’m concerned, ‘digital radio’ is a pretty silly concept. Podcasting…
Reports today about the AFP arresting 4 men in Melbourne who were allegedly planning to attack a military base in Victoria is being called "terrorism" by the Prime…