With less than a fortnight to go before the gates close on new laws governing the financial relationship between the Australian news indu…
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Originally published August, 2011, on the Share Wars blog “Information implies surprise.” One evening in 1955 American mathematician Clau…
A picture of a frog hitching a ride on a snake was enough to ensure viral stardom in 2011. It was what I uncovered when I went deep into the
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Welcome to Go Inside News
I have noticed that very often the way people achieve worthwhile things is not by “turning the volume up”, moving into the unknown, or be…
A couple of weeks ago the Australian government announced it was going make Facebook and Google pay for news.
Published March 14, 2020, The Spin Off I have a strange relationship with Australian media. In some ways I’m an insider: I’ve worked in t…
An industry-wide news boycott is the only way to find out the true value of news to Google and Facebook.
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The Birth of Share Wars
This is the second chapter of the book All Your Friends Like This
Published 12 May, 2019, Newshub I’m writing this to explain why Newshub ran footage of a man depositing half a pig’s head at the Al Noor …
Published 15 August 2019, Newshub Two weeks ago it came out that TVNZ wasn’t paying a dividend to the Government this year and for “the f…