gatewatching

It’s been awhile between drinks here on Gatewatching. My excuse is that I’ve moved jobs, and things have been (and remain) frantic here at GetUp! (Not sure about Axel and Barry’s excuses )Big news soon, but the job has been something of a continuation of my work on youdecide2007 and queenslanddecides, with a little bit of open australia mixed in, and some other spesh features. Watch this space.

Anyway, I’m inspired to post today by what seems to me to be indications of a definite move into a second “wave” or “phase” of Australian political blogging. A lot of bloggers seem to be moving towards group blogging, underwritten by advertising revenue - higher-traffic political bloggers are moving towards long-term, monetised and (hopefully) more sustainable models of content-making. (This is apart from those bloggers - the Bolts, Blairs and Dunlops - who are already operating successfully within MSM sites).

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Our latest piece is up at the ABC here Feel free to comment there or here.

Club Bloggery: Once were barons
By Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders

The Bulletin magazine, published by ACP, has closed down after almost 130 years of publishing.

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins, and its tendency under Kerry Packer to be used now and then as the mogul’s mouthpiece, its end is an alarming symptom of something wider and more serious. The worrying structural problem it reveals is the difficulty of sustaining any venues for the specialised task of investigative journalism in Australian and international media. Read more…

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