Hun story goes missing. The Herald Sun announced on its front page this morning that missing 15-year-old schoolgirl Madison Murphy was “safe and sound” …

But readers who turned to page three for the good news were left emotionally bewildered. Madison’s family were apparently still begging for her to come home …

The front-page pointer, not the story, had it right: Madison turned up at a police station last night and was reunited with her parents.

The Urbanist: Age talks down trains. The opening of a new rail station isn’t a common event in Australian cities, so it ought to be a significant and newsworthy occasion. Yet in this prominent page three story, “Myki crashes at rail station opening“, The Age reported yesterday the opening of Melbourne’s newest rail station was ruined by the system’s hopeless ticketing system:

“As eager commuters headed to Melbourne’s newest train station on Sunday, they arrived to find the myki system out of order.

“It meant that for more than an hour, passengers at the $110 million Williams Landing station couldn’t buy or top up myki cards at the counter or from the lone myki machine.

“Minutes before the system crashed, Victorian Transport Minister Terry Mulder was talking up the Werribee line station, which will service Point Cook and future residents of Williams Landing.”

The tone of the article wasn’t missed by the 137 commenters on The Age‘s online version. The overwhelming majority condemned the government and the private operator for the shortcomings of myki and the rail system more generally. While there are indeed problems with myki, it’s worth taking a closer look at those three paras because they reveal the relentlessly negative tone of the article isn’t justified. — Alan Davies (read the full story at The Urbanist)

Front page of the day. Only in Seattle: the Times leads with the good-guy hackers and with the comeback of iconic home-town company Microsoft …