Brilliant Guardian April Fools

Guard­ian switches to Twit­ter and con­verts entire back cata­log too, res­ult­ing in genius tweets such as:JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gun­shot from grassy knoll WTF­Full article

Journalism in troubled times

Every week, a journ­al­ist some­where is killed or assaul­ted for simply doing their job.This extraordin­ary edit­or­ial by the murdered editor of the Sri Lankan Sunday Leader was appar­ently writ­ten just a few days before his death.May these brave souls...

Sydney: The Future of Journalism Conference

In a last-minute fit of future-proof­ing, I’ve decided to use fre­quent flyer points to jump on a plane to Sydney tomor­row to attend the MEAA’s Future of Journ­al­ism con­fer­ence at the ABC. Couple of questions: a) Anyone going? b) Anyone wanna see me...

One of my heroes has died

Farewell, Pamela Bone. You were an amaz­ing journ­al­ist, an incred­ible woman, and a great inspir­a­tion to all of us at The Age. Rest in Peace​.It was a priv­ilege to have known you.

Renegades

I’m star­ing up at my panel of Trans­met­ro­pol­itan on the wall above my desk, in which Spider Jer­u­s­alem is in the pro­cess of kick­ing down a door, his big boot extend­ing past the bottom of the frame. “I don’t have to put up with this shabby crap’ he says....