Calling on The Australian to apologise for Leak cartoon: Open letter from journalists, writers, artists and others
More than 200 people working in the media, communications and related fields have signed the open letter below, regarding The Australian’s recent publication of a Bill Leak cartoon att... Read more
As noted in a recent post, many journalists with longstanding experience and expertise in covering health, medicine and science have left mainstream media outlets. And today, news of another... Read more
(This post is being updated as more comments land…) This is a fraught time for journalists and the media industry, and it is particularly depressing for those who care about the qualit... Read more
A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more
As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. H... Read more
Dr Brendan Shaw, chief executive of Medicines Australia, writes: There has been some discussion over the past week about News Ltd’s commercial arrangement with Medicines Australia to promote... Read more
Further to recent discussions about the sponsorship deal between Medicines Australia and The Australian, journalist Ray Moynihan has a column examining some of the related issues in the BMJ,... Read more
Further to recent discussions about Medicines Australia’s sponsorship of The Health of the Nation series in The Australian, Dr Tim Woodruff investigates some of the wider issues raised... Read more
Further to the recent discussions about the Medicines Australia sponsorship of The Australian’s series, the Health of the Nation… Medicines Australia has now confirmed that as part of the ar... Read more
Adam Cresswell, the health editor at The Australian, responds to recent comments at Crikey and Croakey, about the newspaper’s Health of the Nations series that was sponsored by Medicin... Read more
(Additional comments are being added to the bottom of this post as they land) As you may have seen, The Australian has been running articles and video clips about health policy in a series c... Read more