Bust Fairfax’s ad balloons. Check out the Fairfax news sites today, which seem to have introduced an even more insidious and infuriating advertising practice that ruined my Monday morning news scan. Readers now open a story and get about five seconds of reading before the story is blocked by a big ad for Virgin Money, interrupting the story mid-sentence and causing the reader to have to physically close the ad. — Terry Toweling
Killed for covering an election in Indonesia
“A journalist with Papua local channel Merauke TV was found dead on Friday, apparently from torture.” — The Jakarta Post
Online is where it’s at for entertainment
“Digital media is still the biggest area for growth, according to The PricewaterhouseCoopers Media and Entertainment Outlook.” — mUmBRELLA
Fox gets its front row White House seat
“The White House Correspondents Association is moving Fox News up to the front row in the briefing room, according to sources familiar with the process. The WHCA board’s decision was unanimous.” — Yahoo! News
A new way for PR to work with journos
“NewsBasis, a start-up opening on Monday, wants to change that with an online marketplace to match businesses and organizations that want to broadcast their messages with journalists working on topical articles.” — New York Times
Why the internet is punk
“The leap between the original punk movement of the 1970s and Star Wars fandom on the internet today is not as big as you might think.” — Meanjin
Get on firefox (indeed, why aren’t you already?) and get FlashBlock. Problem solved.