The FIFA World Cup has been no stranger to controversy this year. As Erdem Koc explains, many football fans are seeing red over sloppy referee decisions.

Upstart is one year-old this Saturday. Co-founders Lawrie Zion and Chris Scanlon look back on the first twelve months of an experiment that’s resulted in dozens of students and journalists publishing more than 500 items on the site.

Recent La Trobe graduates Erdem Koc and Ryan Witcombe will join The Working Journalist class this evening to talk about their lives as working journalists. All students and staff are most welcome to attend.

The ongoing debate about the legacy of Anzac Day intensifies every year as April 25 draws near. But according to former upstart editor, Erdem Koc, this leads to some blinkered views of what that battle in Gallipoli really means for us now.

Kelly Theobald and Matt de Neef are the new editors of upstart. That means that you should be nice to them. And yes, write for them too.

It’s happy half-birthday to us. Send us your comments, your criticisms, and even your congratulations – we want the lot.

A few weeks ago he was being ruthlessly exploited in his role as “upstart” editor. Now, it gives us great pleasure to confirm that Erdem Koc has just landed a job as as news journalist with SBS Radio in Melbourne.

Here at upstart we’re very pleased to welcome Tom Cowie as our summer editor. Tom is taking over the reigns from Erdem Koc, who has just completed his Law/Media degree and a successful stint as this publication’s inaugural editor.

As part of a series of stories filed from a journalism study tour of Kuwait, Erdem Koc explains a passion of the Kuwaiti people which as Australians, we may have difficulty relating to.

The Arab Times in Kuwait has featured the journalism study tour from Australia, which includes upstart’s Erdem Koc, Tom Cowie and Kelly Theobald.