Showing posts with label Fairfax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fairfax. Show all posts
Monday, March 04, 2013
Big news day.
Today was a big day for Fairfax and Australian journalism. As a Fairfax employee, it was marked by an email sent to all of us...
So after more than 150 years of publication, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are tabloid! I held our office's SMH in my hand today and thought... woah, it's so SMALL!
But I'm for the change. As smart as broadsheets look, the SMH layout looks pretty much the same. It was more the changes to their website I was getting my head around for half the morning as I read through the major stories.
Check out this mUmBrella article which shows an intentional incorrect ad from Commonwealth Bank among discussion of the change. Smart.
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Adelaide was voted the country's most liveable city for the third year running according to a property report with resident responses.
Love it.
Read comments on SMH and AdelaideNow and wasn't surprised by the differences in comments/angles. Sydney is upset that Melbourne ranked better than them, and everyone's upset because there's still the mentality Adelaide's a backwater.
Melbourne IS more accessible than Sydney, and while Adelaide doesn't exactly have as many job prospects or more efficient transport, it's definitely more liveable in terms of getting around and culture (OK so Melbourne's awesome at culture too, but still, Mad March IS amazing...).
Do you think Adelaide's most liveable within Australia?
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It isn't the world that makes you unhappy, or the way people are in the world. It's how you process the people and events of the world.
Instead of judging others as people who ought to behave in certain ways, see them as reflecting a part of you, and ask yourself what it is you're ready to learn from them.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Amidst all the current uncertainty within the Fairfax sphere, newcomers like myself are privy to some of the perks the company has to offer.
I've landed for cadet camp!
OK, so it's really called a cadet induction if you want to get technical.
It's a week on the outskirts of Sydney where I, with all these other people, get to be trained in various parts of print and online journalism, complete with sessions on photography and shorthand. It's pretty much the three-year uni course rolled up into five days. And we get the flights and accommodation to do this. Win.
Yes, so I'm getting back into shorthand, four years after uni. Pretty handy considering I've let it slide big time. We get a 20-week correspondence course after the camp so we can start using it for real. Huzzah!
I'm lucky enough to be here with two of my colleagues so it's going to be one hell of a party. Well, as much as news gathering and learning about defamation can get our minds dancing!
My own party will continue as I stick around Sydney for a few extra days. A concert, hopefully some party times and coffee with friends and other bits and pieces will take up my time nicely.
I'm so excited!
**While I'm going to be oh-so-busy fraternising and learning, there's still room in my head and heart for you lot. I had some previous ideas already put to paper so you couldn't miss me for too long and they will appear in due course, so look out :)
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