[clear]Last night I headed over to FBi, a successful not for profit radio station in inner Sydney to meet up with the Budget_Aus team to listen to Treasurer Joe Hockey deliver his first budget speech. We were hosted by Heidi Pett and the rest of the FBi Backchat team who were working on their show about […]
Stand up, citizen journalists: @burgewords comments on #FairfaxStrike
May 8, 2014
A very simple tweet went out on the same afternoon Fairfax journalists agreed to strike in protest at the company’s plan to cut 80 jobs, mainly in production (layout and sub-editing) and photography. Since the current Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) hearing will continue through the strike, a citizen journalist (‘CJ’) asked whether any […]
Why Australians should care about World Press Freedom Day: @journlaw
May 5, 2014
Readers of NoFibs reap the rewards of citizen journalists expressing their news and views with a high level of free expression by world standards. So why should Australians care about media freedom on World Press Freedom Day 2014? Quite simply, because it is a ‘fragile freedom’ – continually under threat and only noticed by most people once […]
Reporting grassroots greenshoots when faith in establishment politics dies: @margokingston1
May 2, 2014
Margo: A version of this column appeared in the Byron Shire Echo – @Echonetdaily – on 29 April as a substitute for Mungo McCallum’s weekly column while he recovered from surgery. Mungo and I last discussed politics just after the federal election on Late Night Live. We both knew what Abbott would do – seek to close down free […]
March of the open-hearted: @Sally_Owl tells the inside story of #MarchInMarch
March 26, 2014
I started writing this on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, on a flight home after attending March in March (MiM) Melbourne last Sunday, and MiM Canberra on Monday, March 17. I am still giving thanks, six days later, for the miracle that ensured MiM 2014 was a great success, that the vision I had for the marches […]
Mary Lucas open letter to Jon Faine regarding #MarchinMarch
March 17, 2014
By Mary Lucas 17th March 2014
Understanding Twitter addiction: A day of withdrawal by Margo Kingston
March 11, 2014
[View the story “Saturday March 1, transitioning from Twitter addiction” on Storify]
Margo’s Twitter report on death and injury at Manus Island, Australia’s Heart of Darkness
February 23, 2014
[clear] Videos by David Marler @Qldaah By Margo Kingston @margokingston1 23 February 2014 [View the story “Margo’s Twitter report on death and injury at Manus Island, Australia’s Heart of Darkness” on Storify]
Sweetening the deal: #SPCsunday helps preserve Aussie icon @LindaDrummond reports
February 15, 2014
By Linda Drummond @LindaDrummond 15th February 2014 It’s easy to look at an issue and think: Someone should do something about that, but it seems our governments are becoming less inclined to be the ones to do something. So where does that leave us? We can either complain. Or we can act. Last week I […]
We need to talk about @GregHuntMP: Facebook blues
February 9, 2014
By Anon (name supplied) February 9, 2014 I’m Greg Hunt’s friend on Facebook but he thinks he’s so cool he acts like I don’t exist. When I try to talk to him he ignores me and sometimes he pretends he didn’t hear what I said by editing my comments. I’m not the only one. He’s […]
