The Future of Journalism: a joint Media Alliance & Walkley Foundation initiative

1. Links for 11.02.10
(Articles/Reading List)

Mark Scott speech to the Melbourne Press Club sets out vision of new journalistic skill sets to ensure quality and newsbreaking across all platforms while bringing audience into newsgathering process: ...

2. The sound of the suburbs?
(Blog/Opinion)

... the paper, a mid-range, quality broadsheet with a daily circulation of about 350,000 in printed form has parlayed its reach to 30 million unique users a month around the world. The paper has successfully ...

3. Links for 07.10.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... story: Jack Thornton: People will support non-profits because they want to read quality news. Read a response from the founder of the non-profit Texas Tribune here: Click here for the full story: ...

4. News debate? Don't mention it...
(Blog/Opinion)

... has been around longer than Mr Murdoch and will probably outlast him. In any case, we’ll be having a birthday bash next year to celebrate 100 years of quality Australian journalism made possible, largely, ...

5. It's on for young and old as pay debate turns Punchy
(Blog/Opinion)

... Guardian commentator, Will Hutton, suggests that the BBC, for all its faults, provides quality and diversity that the commercial sector – being more revenue-driven and conservative, will never match. ...

6. Links for 04.09.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... one? #4 - We can re-create scarcity by putting up pay walls. “Most newspaper information just isn’t that scarce.  Nor is it of particularly high quality.” Click here for the full story. Michael ...

7. When multi-tasking leads to mediocrity
(Blog/Opinion)

...  But it was great to hear Dominique Schwartz get into a panel, which included the ABC’s head of news for South Australia, Rick Keegan, over the whole question of multi-tasking and quality. How can ...

8. Hyperlocal in the headlines
(Blog/Opinion)

... rest of the country) is quality, useful and timely information. Everyblock’s buyers figure people need this service and it will prove a money spinner for them. If you are going to make money out of information/journalism ...

9. Harto speaks. Dorothy listens
(Blog/Opinion)

... understands the importance of quality: "By good enough I mean that it will have to be: well researched brilliantly written perceptive and intelligent professionally edited accurate ...

10. Facts are priceless
(Blog/Opinion)

... much does this cost? How much does this bring in? If you believe Philip Meyer (which I do) then the very presence of these world-beating stories and the quality of journalism and journalist that bring ...