Columns & opinion

Damian Eales: Tame the Big Tech duopoly to ensure real news survives

Apr 05, 2020 at 08:37 pm by Staff

The digital duopoly's dereliction contradicts their hype, namely that they're a force for good. Google claims to generate billions of leads to news sites, raising the question.... Read More

Kristy Hess & Lisa Waller: Local newspapers are an 'essential service'. They deserve a government rescue package, too

Apr 02, 2020 at 02:43 am by Staff

The coronavirus pandemic has spawned a lexicon of its own. We have had to quickly incorporate words like "self-isolation" and "social distancing" into our everyday language to.... Read More

López-Madrazo: Quality journalism in troubled times

Mar 31, 2020 at 06:20 pm by Staff

In the span of just a few weeks, the entire world has been plunged into an inconceivable ordeal (writes WAN-Ifra president Fernando de Yarza López-Madrazo). A global pandemic.... Read More

Earl Wilkinson: Zero incidents of COVID-19 transmission from print surfaces

Mar 25, 2020 at 03:55 am by Staff

There has never been a documented incident whereby the COVID-19 virus has been transmitted from a print newspaper, print magazine, print letter or print package, according to.... Read More

Peter Coleman: How the world changes as DRUPA, INMA events fall

Mar 14, 2020 at 07:25 pm by Staff

The 'postponement' of DRUPA in June - effectively a cancellation - signals another tectonic shift, as significant as that during the global financial crisis (writes Peter Cole.... Read More