While The Walkley awards for journalism were held in Sydney last night. Many journalists and others were there from print, TV, radio, PR crowds, lobbyists, politicians and the like. At the Sydney Morning Herald, the one or two subs left were obviously overworked, after all how could this atrocious headline make it all the way through the night’s editions?

“Obama’s prepares for Copenhagen as China commits to carbon cuts”.

No sign of that headline on site on SMH.com.au. Over at the Murdoch family newsletter (AKA The Australian), people living in a number of inner city Federal seats will be glad to learn they have been upgraded socially. In the good comment piece by Peter Van Onselen headlined: “Saying no could be fatal to MPs in inner-city seats”, the following line stood out:

“There are practical considerations for several lower house Liberal MPs whose electorates are urbane city seats.” Why not smooth, or suave, or just cool? Obviously the few subs left were at the Walkley’s cheering on Garry Hughes who rightfully won the Gold Logie, sorry Walkley, for his tremendously personal story on the Black Saturday fires in Victoria. — Glenn Dyer

Group of publishers to create online newstand A consortium of magazine publishers including Time Inc. and Condé Nast plan to jointly build an online newsstand for publications in multiple digital formats, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The formation of a new company to run the online newsstand — sometimes characterized as an “iTunes for magazines” — may be announced in early December. — The New York Times

This morning I stationed myself outside the Guardian’s offices with home-made business cards, trying to get some influential readers for my blog. (Well, someone obviously liked it or they wouldn’t have invited me in to write this.) Why, you might ask? Well, I’m giving myself one last chance to get noticed. In the next two weeks I’m going to hit every national newspaper’s offices in the hope that someone, somewhere, says “You know what? You ain’t half bad. Fancy a job?” — The Guardian

Why Google Wave sucks, and why you will use it anyway Google Wave’s ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000 invitations two months ago. Many people still want invitations. Among those who’ve tried it, some criticize it, some praise it. For now it has a lot of usability problems that are described below. Yes, you should look at Google Wave. But there is no need to desperately long for an invitation yet.  — Tech Crunch

iPhone hits British supermarkets Supermarket giant Tesco has joined a growing number of UK firms offering Apple’s popular iPhone. A spokesperson for the firm said that it hoped to offer the phone “in time for Christmas”. Although Tesco has not revealed tariffs, the spokesperson said that its prices were “competitive”. — BBC News