Introducing the new look Crikey Team Blog — posting may or may not increase
After a long wait — which was more to do with the ineptitude of key people in Crikey‘s editorial team (namely me) and First Dog being too busy to actually caricature everyone in the Crikey team — we...
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Leigh Josey’s Morning Media Mauling
OK. I’ve been at Crikey for a while and most mornings I peruse the newspapers of this fine country finding snippets that I think are funny, stupid, brilliant, may contain traces of crocodiles — or a...
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Leigh Josey’s Morning Media Mauling
What the? Today’s NT News front page caught my eye… Smoking hot cyclops martians? In the top end? Here is the opening few paragraphs of the Page 3 story. Make of it as you will… Tiger watch #1. Ok, we...
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Leigh Josey’s Morning Media Mauling
Geelong doesn’t forget. The Geelong Advertiser, affectionately known at the Geelong Ablettiser, loves its AFL team. Loves ‘em. When former coach Mark “Bomber” Thomson quit, citing “burn out”, in early...
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Crikey Skype diaries — Volume one: the great Caramel Crown affair
Every so often, depending on how many tea towels First Dog sells, a packet of ‘premium biscuits’ — sometimes Tim Tams or even Caramel Crowns — will appear randomly in the Crikey tea room. These...
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Leigh Josey’s Morning Media Mauling
Royal romance in the air. So Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married. Hell, there’s already commemorative mugs available. So I turned my attention to the British papers and I wonder if...
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A special Royal Engagement edition of Leigh Josey’s Morning Media Mauling
Did you hear? Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married! As a proud member of the Commonwealth, it in this author’s opinion that our little old Antipodean outpost should do everything in...
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Leigh Josey’s Morning Media Mauling
Front page FAIL #56. Shepparton News, what are you doing? Keyboard Cat is YouTube impact. Kanye West’s “I’mma let you finish” is YouTube impact. B-Mac’s 1100 YouTube hits is not an “insane response” —...
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A year in Crikey office iPhone photos
What a difference a year makes. A look back at last year’s photos sees bright and joyful times. No one has got around to putting decorations up this year. I haven’t brought flowers in to the Crikey...
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Floods! In inner city Melbourne!
So I am having a beer in Richmond at my favourite watering hole The Richmond Club Hotel after a week of Crikey. I love having a beer on a Friday with my mates, and we were at the RCH to have a few cold...
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