Tricksters dig under The Oz’s paywall. The below instructions were submitted to Reddit earlier this morning by user “rabbitspade” …
‘Baby-face’ Salt and The CMail. A very youthful snap of well-paid demographer Bernard Salt on page three of this morning’s Courier Mail …
Front page of the Day. UK commuter newspaper i leads its front page with today’s crunch meeting by European leaders:
Tribune faces closure after 75 years
“Staff at Tribune, the flagship leftwing journal whose previous editors included Aneurin Bevan and Michael Foot, are fighting to save the weekly title from imminent closure.” — The Guardian
Jobs called Fox News ‘destructive force in our society’
“Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Apple co-founder says Jobs railed against the conservative news channel and tried to convince Murdoch to shut it down. His comments came at the 2010 iteration of News Corp.’s annual management retreat.” — Gawker
IWMF honours four courageous journalists
“Adela Navarro Bello, general director and columnist for Zeta news magazine in Mexico, Parisa Hafezi, bureau chief for Reuters in Iran, and Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of Prachatai online newspaper in Thailand, collected this year’s Courage in Journalism awards in Los Angeles, organised by the International Women’s Media Foundation.” — journalism.co.uk
Lachlan Harris: rise of the opinion cycle
“The news cycle has been replaced by the opinion cycle, with Andrew Bolt now the most significant media voice, Kevin Rudd’s former press secretary Lachlan Harris has argued.” — mUmBRELLA
All those cheap Kindle tablets kill Amazon’s profits
“Despite a solid 44 percent spike in sales, Amazon reported a staggering 73 percent drop in income on the heels of its new lineup of recession-friendly Kindles. Since Amazon made the tablet line-up so cheap — the Kindle Fire is actually selling for less than it costs to manufacture it — Wall Street expected bad news about the company’s bottom line.” — The Atlantic Wire
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