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Data from the new Australian Digital News Report shows that most people prefer to get their digital news in text format. This won't surprise anyone who…
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The Unwilled Writer Part 2Students can now generate plausible essays for a less than a cent with the click of a button. How do teachers deal with that? Something has to change…
Hal Crawford
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The Unwilled Writer, part 1GPT-3, an AI which knows how to write - but not what it is writing - has had a profound impact on me. It feels like coming face to face with the English…
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The rise of machine models with advanced language skills is set to up-end professional work, with a big impact on news media. If you don't believe it…
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Get bored, get brave: Tim Duggan on making ideas betterJournalist, entrepreneur and author Tim Duggan knows that everyone is creative, only they have some pretty messed up ideas about ideas. In his new book…
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The same kind of analysis that has seen The Economist rank nations by the cost of Big Mac burgers shows that publication itself varies by more than 300…
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Gideon Haigh on the longest form of journalismIf you’re a cricket fan, you will be familiar with Gideon Haigh’s writing, but that’s far from his only area of activity. Haigh has become a specialist…
Hal Crawford
Where fact and melody collideNews music is not often discussed, but it is important in branding, grabbing attention, and setting an emotional atmosphere. Dutch journalist Victor…
Hal Crawford
Keep calm and make a plan: Sarah Bristow on news directingSarah Bristow is the News Director at Discovery in New Zealand: she's a powerful combination of directness and acute broadcast audience understanding.
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It’s wet. It’s so wet, it’s hard to remember what dry is like. As with much of New South Wales, it’s been raining here for what seems to be several…
Hal Crawford
On assignment in Australia: Bill GrueskinIt is a measure of how significant the Australian News Media Bargaining Code is as an international precedent that someone like Grueskin has turned up…
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Paul Henry on being dislikedPaul Henry is offensive to many, and that's the way he likes it. Certainly, that's one of the reasons he has built such a successful career in…
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