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| Under PMP's stewardship the publication aimed for "professional" style, avoiding the use of in-house nicknames and other idiosyncrasies of the original Crikey. In February 2006 the ''Age'' reported that a co-founder and writer, Hugo Kelly, had been sacked for reasons the company claimed were on the grounds of professional misconduct but which Kelly maintained because they had "no guts".<ref name="watch_what_you_say">{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/crikey-youve-got-to-watch-what-you-say/2006/02/15/1139890806140.html |title=Crikey! You've got to watch what you say |last1=Westerman |first1=Helen |last2=Urban |first2=Rebecca |work=] |accessdate=22 August 2009 |location=Melbourne | date=16 February 2006}}</ref> | Under PMP's stewardship the publication aimed for "professional" style, avoiding the use of in-house nicknames and other idiosyncrasies of the original Crikey. In February 2006 the ''Age'' reported that a co-founder and writer, Hugo Kelly, had been sacked for reasons the company claimed were on the grounds of professional misconduct but which Kelly maintained because they had "no guts".<ref name="watch_what_you_say">{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/crikey-youve-got-to-watch-what-you-say/2006/02/15/1139890806140.html |title=Crikey! You've got to watch what you say |last1=Westerman |first1=Helen |last2=Urban |first2=Rebecca |work=] |accessdate=22 August 2009 |location=Melbourne | date=16 February 2006}}</ref> | ||
| ==Controversy== | |||
| In March 2009, Crikey alleged that the Daily Telegraph's opinion editor and columnist ] "comments under a pseudonym on his blog and various other blogs" and was "unprofessional in his conduct as a journalist".<ref name=Crikey100412>{{cite web | |||
| |url=http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2010/04/12/crikey-apologises-to-tim-blair/ | |||
| |title=Crikey Apologises to Tim Blair | |||
| |date=12 April 2010 |publisher=Crikey}}</ref> | |||
| Crikey issued a partial retraction a few days later. In April 2010, Crikey fully retracted their report and apologised,<ref name=Crikey100412/> after Blair commenced legal action.<ref>{{cite web | |||
| |url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/journalism_in_the_age_of_crikey/ | |||
| |title=Journalism in the Age of Crikey | |||
| |author=Tim Blair |date=March 2, 2009 |publisher=''Daily Telegraph'' blogs}} | |||
| </ref> | |||
| Blair subsequently accepted a confidential settlement.<ref>{{cite web | |||
| |url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/mr-john-keeps-his-reputation-20100413-s59m.html | |||
| |title=Blair bitch project | |||
| |author=Sean Nicholls and Leesha McKenny |date=April 13, 2010 |publisher=''Sydney Morning Herald''}} | |||
| </ref> | |||
| Later in 2010, Crikey retracted and apologized for an "offensive and indefensible" statement about Blair and ].<ref>{{cite web | |||
| |url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/crikey_regrets/ | |||
| |title=Crikey Regrets | |||
| |author=Tim Blair |date=August 28, 2010 |publisher=''Daily Telegraph'' blogs}}</ref> | |||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
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Crikey is an Australian electronic magazine comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. Well known in Australian political, media and business circles , Crikey was described by former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham as the "most popular website in Parliament House" in The Latham Diaries. Its current editor is Sophie Black, who succeeded Jonathan Green.
Stephen Mayne
Crikey was founded by activist shareholder Stephen Mayne, a journalist and former staffer of then Liberal Victorian premier Jeff Kennett. It developed out of Mayne's "jeffed.com" website, which in turn developed out of his abortive independent candidate campaign for Kennett's seat of Burwood. Longstanding Crikey political commentators/reporters include former Liberal insider Christian Kerr (who originally wrote under the pseudonym 'Hillary Bray'), Guy Rundle, Charles Richardson, Bernard Keane, Mungo MacCallum and Hugo Kelly.
In 2003 Stephen Mayne, the then proprietor, was forced to sell his house in order to settle defamation cases brought by radio presenter Steve Price and former ALP senator Nick Bolkus over false statements published about them by Crikey.
Staff of then Treasurer Peter Costello banned Crikey from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Budget 'lock ups', in which financial journalists are shown the Federal Budget papers some hours in advance so that their publications can report the Budget in depth as soon as it is released, on the grounds that Crikey is not considered to be part of the "mainstream media".
Private Media
On February 1, 2005, it was announced that Stephen Mayne had sold Crikey to Private Media Partners, a company, owned by former Editor-in-chief of the Sydney Morning Herald, Eric Beecher, for A$1 million. Under the agreement, Mayne has occasionally written for the email newsletter.
Under PMP's stewardship the publication aimed for "professional" style, avoiding the use of in-house nicknames and other idiosyncrasies of the original Crikey. In February 2006 the Age reported that a co-founder and writer, Hugo Kelly, had been sacked for reasons the company claimed were on the grounds of professional misconduct but which Kelly maintained because they had "no guts".
See also
References
- Mark Latham, The Latham Diaries, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2005, p 403.
- "Multimedia Media Exchange" (PDF).
- Brown, Susan (4 July 2004). "Crikey! Name behind column comes clean on dishing dirt". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
- Shiel, Fergus (7 May 2003). "Legal web snares Crikey publisher". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- Carbone, Suzanne (3 February 2005). "Mayne finds a million reasons to sell". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- Westerman, Helen; Urban, Rebecca (16 February 2006). "Crikey! You've got to watch what you say". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 22 August 2009.