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Chronology of Recent Events AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER HISTORY GROUP NEWSLETTER ISSN 1443-4962 No. 7 June 2000 Compiled for the ANHG by Rod Kirkpatrick, 13 Sumac Street, Middle Park, Qld, 4074, 07-3279 2279, [email protected] 7.1 COPY DEADLINE Deadline for copy for the next Newsletter is 1 August. 7.2 BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON JOURNALISTS The Australian will make available on its website later this year biographical information about all its senior writers, reports PANPA Bulletin (June, p.32). This is part of an emerging trend for editors to be more accountable to their readers, even to the extent of detailing the pedigree of journalists taking up influential appointments 7.3 HOW READERS GREETED CANBERRA’S SUNDAY TIMES The re-launched Sunday edition of the Canberra Times the Canberra Sunday Times was welcomed by readers thus: “Congratulations on a fabulous new format … just the right balance of easy reading and solids news.” George Stern. “New layout for much the same material … if it ain’t broke …” Peter Davidson. “Because of its smaller typeface, [it] is not as comfortable to read as the older version.” Julia Richards. A number of readers echoed this complaint. Editor Michael Stevens announced in the second issue that, in response, the type size had been increased. (Sunday Times, 14 May 2000) 7.4 HEADLINES ACROSS THE WATER On Sunday, 28 May, a crowd estimated at between 150,000 and 250,000 walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge as an act of reconciliation with indigenous Australians. This is how some newspapers headlined their reports the next day: Australian Page 1 Sorry: the people’s apology Australian Financial Review Page 3 Marchers bridge reconciliation gap Sydney Morning Herald Page 1 Hands across the water Daily Telegraph Page 1 United nation (full-page colour pic.) Age Page 1 Bridging the racial divide Herald Sun Pp. 7, 12 200,000 march for unity Courier-Mail Page 1 Everyday Aussies cross a bridge to tomorrow Canberra Times Page 1 Bridge walk mandate for treaty West Australian Page 1 People power puts Howard on notice Border Mail (Albury Wodonga) Page 6 Rally adds pressure for treaty Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga) Page 6 Rally turnout adds pressure for treaty Jeni Harvie, letters editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, said there was a strong protest against the media coverage, with writers questioning the assumption that 250,000 people indicated overwhelming support for reconciliation. David Burke, of Elizabeth Bay, objected to the “hijacking” of his participation “by media acolytes promoting the sorry/treaty Page 1 gimmick”. Both the apology and the treaty remained major points of contention, Ms Harvie wrote (SMH, 3 June 00, p.42). [Thanks to all who contributed to this item.] 7.5 PUBLICATION OF INTEREST THE TOCSIN: CONTESTING THE CONSTITUTION by Hugh Anderson, Red Rooster Press, P O Box 2129 Hotham Hill VIC 3051, 2000, 308 pages paperback, ISBN 0-908247-47- 8, $26.80. The Tocsin was a radical labour weekly paper published in Melbourne from 1897 until 1906 when it became the Labor Call. Tocsin was opposed to Federation. Most of this book consists of reprints of Tocsin’s reporting and opinions about Federation. The book also contains a useful introduction providing a history of Tocsin, including references to the mainstream Melbourne dailies of the time. 7.6 RECENT ARTICLES OF INTEREST 7.6.1 WHO IS ULRICH ELLIS? by Frank Morris, Australian Book Collector, No. 117, May 2000, pp.16-18. Deals with Ulrich Ruegg Ellis, journalist, pamphleteer and historian. Political secretary to Country Party leader Sir Earle Page, 1928-36.Most notable work, A History of the Country Party (1963). 7.6.2 A MAN FOR ALL REASONS by Mark Day, Australian, “Media” liftout, 25 May 2000, p.13. Using the death of Sir Larry Lamb as a hook, Day discusses whether “popular” journalism can be good. 7.6.3 GETTING TO KNOW OUR NEAR NEIGHBOURS by Warren Osmond, Australian, Media liftout, 1 June 2000, pp.14-15. Journalists war correspondents in particular gave Australians their first insights into Asia, says a former foreign editor and diplomatic editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. 7.6.4 THE CHANGING ROLE OF A NEWSPAPER EDITOR by Jack Waterford, in Australian Studies in Journalism, 8, 1999, pp.3-17. The editor of the Canberra Times tells of the challenges facing editors as alternatives sources of information become readily available to readers. 7.6.5 CORPORATIONS AND COLLECTIVES: AN OVERVIEW OF AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER COMPANIES1860-1920 by Denis Cryle, in Australian Studies in Journalism, 8, 1999, pp.83-95. Provides an Australia-wide overview of the processes of capitalisation and company formation that overtook the newspaper press from the second half of the 19th century. 7.6.6 AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISM RESEARCH INDEX 1992-1999 by Anna Day, in Australian Studies in Journalism, 8, 1999, pp.239-332. 7.6.7 OUT OF AFRICA AND HOT OFF THE PRESS by Victoria Laurie, Australian, “Media” liftout, 8 June 2000, pp.12-13. A Perth-based South African couple’s newspaper venture (SA Independent South Africans Down Under) for fellow expatriates in Australia has celebrated its first birthday. 7.6.8 GOSSIPS REVEAL NAKED TRUTH by Iain Shedden, Australian, “Media” liftout, 15 June 2000, pp.809. Scuttlebut is serious stuff. A look at gossip columnists and their below- the-belt exposes. Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter No 7 June 2000 Page 2 7.7 Chronology Of Recent Events 24 April Death of Brian McKibbin at age 69; began career on Geelong Advertiser; 2000 distinguished himself as a foreign correspondent and senior journalist for Adelaide’s Advertiser and Melbourne’s Sun News-Pictorial; joined News and Information Bureau in 1969 (Herald Sun, 10 May 00). 6 May The Packers: CPH Group offers the public the chance to invest in CP Investment Corp, which “has a co-invest right with the CPH Group, as well as a 15pc interest in John Fairfax Holdings Limited”. The CPH Group “intends to invest around $100 million in this issue”. This is “your chance to get in on the deals the dealmakers make” (Courier-Mail, advertisement, 6 May 00, p.19). 7 May Death of John Philip Ryan, editor of the radical Melbourne Catholic Worker, 1959-71; mathematician; human rights activist; age 79 (Australian, 2 June 00, p.12, obit.). 8 May Merger of AIM Newspaper Group Pty Ltd and Shoalhaven Independent, a paid- circulation weekly at Nowra, NSW (Shoalhaven Independent, 10 May 00, p.1). 12 May Obituary of Len Ward (1905-2000), former editor of the Daily Advertiser, Wagga Wagga, former acting editor and literary editor, Canberra Times, motoring writer (Sydney Morning Herald, 12 May 00, p.32). 18 May Death of Albert (Sir Larry) Lamb, a great tabloid editor; former editor of the Australian, editor-in-chief of Western Mail, Perth; editor of London’s Sun and Daily Express; great tabloid journalist; age 70 (Australian, 22 May 00, report p.8 and obit., p.12; Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May 00, p.43; viz. also Errol Simper’s column, Australian, Media liftout, 1 June 00, p.4 ). 19 May Death of Ron Richards, managing editor, Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd, 1987-91; former editor-in-chief of Daily Sun and Sunday Sun, Brisbane; served cadetship at Warwick Daily News; age 71 (Courier-Mail, 22 May 00, p.2). 21 May Death of Kenneth Spencer May, chief executive, News Ltd., 1969-80; general manager, The News, Adelaide, 1964-69; knighted upon retirement in 1980; former political reporter; spent three significant years at Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, as chief reporter and leader writer (Australian, 24 May 00, p.16). 30 May Death of Mike Kable, motoring editor of Australian from its beginning in 1964 until 1992, and concurrently of Daily Mirror, 1964-1989; continued to write on motoring until last month; served cadetship on National Advocate, Bathurst; worked on Lithgow Mercury; joined Sydney Morning Herald in 1958; age 65 (Australian, 31 May 00, tributes, p.2; obit, p.14). 30 May Death of Jack Hughes, the editor who made the Australasian Post a national icon; lifted circulation from 100,00 to 325,000 in about seven years by making it appeal “to a truck driver in Wagga Wagga” and putting a girl on the cover; age 87 (Herald Sun 1 June 00, p.87). 1 June The Australian’s Media liftout carried four full (tabloid) pages of media job advertisements for the first time. 2 June Australian reports (p.23) that News Corp has appointed James Murdoch, youngest son of Rupert, as chairman of its Hong Kong-based satellite television and multimedia unit, Star TV. [Elisabeth Murdoch has quit her executive post at BSkyB, News Corp’s British-bases satellite broadcaster; she is pregnant with her third child. SMH, 5 May 00, p.5)] 5 June Financial Review introduces layout changes, placing the various tables in a liftout section. (Possibly related to rumours of the Wall Street Journal and UK Financial Times targeting the Australian market). 12 June Northern Daily Leader, Tamworth, undergoes major changes in content and format, placing a heavy emphasis on news about people; local and regional coverage; and being “more interactive” (NDL, 7 June 00, p.4). Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter No 7 June 2000 Page 3 7.8 JOHN LYONS LEAVES BULLETIN John Lyons, winner of the Graham Perkin Award for the Australian Journalist of the Year in 1999, is to leave his position as national affairs editor of The Bulletin to join the Nine Network (Weekend Australian, 27-28 May 00, p.3; see also SMH, 1 April 00, p.7). Lyons is a former editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.
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