You can’t sell news for what it costs to make

My solution might also help defang the fake news threat.

Fair dealing for Australian podcasters

A crash course on how to use other people’s content responsibly.

What I learned from Bob Mankoff

The winding path from Perth to the New Yorker’s pages.

Journalist to entrepreneur: one man’s journey

Innovation often begins with necessity. In my case it was sparked by my son…

These are Australia’s most-shared stories

But are they Walkley-worthy?

ReporterMate is now available as a command-line tool

An update on my free tool that turns data sets into news stories.

ReporterMate is a tool for journalists. It analyses data and outputs results for you, based on a…

What do you mean, a ‘live magazine’?

Behind the scenes of Storyology After Dark. You’d be crazy to…

Beyond the cult of numbers

We need a more sophisticated approach to social media metrics for editorial…

Interior design

What makes Sebastian Smee’s Pulitzer-winning criticism tick?

At the beginning of Rachel Cusk’s 2014 novel Outline, the narrator, a writer, is speaking to her neighbour on an aeroplane flying to Athens. He is embarrassed that the book…

Sticky wicket

What’s happening at the Facebook Journalism Project?