Liam Quinn, Henry Belot, Eric George and Erdem Koç liveblog the US Presidential race.
Kony 2012 has become the latest viral media phenomenon. Brendan Lucas interviews Kony 2012 campaigner Timmy Harris to answer the critics.
Kevin Rudd’s failed attempts to appeal directly to ‘the people’ look crazy-brave, but the Member for Griffith used this strategy to win the leadership and the Prime Ministership. Christopher Scanlon traces the roots of Rudd’s populist strategy.
Liam Quinn, Henry Belot, Eric George and Erdem Koç liveblog the US Presidential race.
Kony 2012 has become the latest viral media phenomenon. Brendan Lucas interviews Kony 2012 campaigner Timmy Harris to answer the critics.
Kevin Rudd’s failed attempts to appeal directly to ‘the people’ look crazy-brave, but the Member for Griffith used this strategy to win the leadership and the Prime Ministership. Christopher Scanlon traces the roots of Rudd’s populist strategy.
In 2013, upstart has a whole new look and and whole new section. Now we just need some content — and that’s where you come in.
Liam Quinn, Henry Belot, Eric George and Erdem Koç liveblog the US Presidential race.
Kony 2012 has become the latest viral media phenomenon. Brendan Lucas interviews Kony 2012 campaigner Timmy Harris to answer the critics.
Kevin Rudd’s failed attempts to appeal directly to ‘the people’ look crazy-brave, but the Member for Griffith used this strategy to win the leadership and the Prime Ministership. Christopher Scanlon traces the roots of Rudd’s populist strategy.
Much of the commentary about the Federal Government’s Independent Media Inquiry, which is due to report later this month, has focused on News Corps’ 70 per cent stake in the Australian print media. upstart has mapped the company’s dominance of the Australian media landscape.
In collaboration with students from La Trobe University’s Bachelor of Journalismand Master of Global Communicationsdegrees, upstart presents the 100 articles that every journalist should read about journalism.
If you’ve ever secretly yearned to host Media Watch, asking the hard questions of editors, managing directors and CEO’s, then here’s your chance to rub shoulders with some of Australia’s media leaders.
Fairfax’s Essential Baby web site has a job vacancy for a site producer.
While they admit ‘Pants off Friday’ might be a challenge, Melissa Tracina and Danielle Hadj tell upstart’s Natalie Savino their new radio program will give all who listen a taste of something different.
Struggling to keep up with the news? Christopher Scanlon shows how you can create your own source of online news using Good Noows.
Do universities offer a safe harbour for investigative journalism within the current storm buffeting the news industries? In this piece, Madeleine Barwick talks to Professor Wendy Bacon from UTS.
If the current newspaper business model can’t support investigative reporting then does it have a future? Madeleine Barwick spoke to Associate Director of the US Centre for Investigative Reporting Christa Scharfenberg to find out.
The funding model that has supported journalism for more than a century is in crisis and no one has any idea what the future holds. But this hasn’t stopped journalistic innovators like Spot.Us founder David Cohn from trying something new. Madeleine Barwick spoke to him about the inspiration for Spot.Us and its critics.
Madeleine Barwick talks to The Age’s Richard Baker about investigative reporting, the ethics of publishing from someone’s Facebook account, and the challenges of dealing with sources.
‘Fast food’ without the calories? Tweet me in! Sheenal Singh shows how Twitter and an amateur cook have combined to challenge the hedonism of food-writing with sharp and shrewd ‘twecipes’.
Madeleine Barwick talks to Walkley award-winning investigative reporter Chris Masters about the fate of investigative reporting, new media, and what makes a good story.
Founded in 1954, Overland, which is celebrating its 200th issue, describes itself as ‘the most radical of Australia’s long-standing literary and cultural magazines’. Madeleine Barwick talks to current editor Jeff Sparrow.
Imitation may be the highest form of flattery — unless it’s a cover version, in which case it can be a byword for an artist suffering creative exhaustion. But when an artist reinvents a song, the cover version can be a thing of beauty.
