Daily Tele sports report gets political. We’re not sure if we should praise or pillory Daily Telegraph reporter Neil Cordy for getting the below paragraph into his piece today on the price of AFL finals tickets versus the price of finals tickets of its NRL counterpart:
Front page of the day. Pakistan’s Dawn covers the horrific industrial fire that has cost 283 lives:
USA Today redesigns
“USA Today, with its colourful omnipresence on airport newsstands and outside the doors of hotel rooms, is showing off its new look on Friday. And the makeover for the newspaper, based just outside the Washington Beltway, comes straight from Silicon Valley. ” — The New York Times
Journo infiltrates iPhone 5 factory
“A journalist claims to have gone undercover in a Foxconn factory where the iPhone 5 is being made, in order to get inside information about the device and its manufacturing process.” — Australian Macworld
Murdoch names new Times chairman
“Rupert Murdoch has turned to a former big gun at News International, Andrew Knight, to take over from him as chairman of the Times and Sunday Times.” — The Guardian
Newsroom actor tweets raunchy photos accidentally
“Alison Pill, who plays an associate producer on HBO’s The Newsroom, needs to work on her social media skills. Yesterday, instead of deleting this topless photo of herself from her phone, she Tweeted it to her 17,000 — now 20,000 — followers.” — TV Newser
Maybe footy tickets would be cheaper if we could just “stop the boats”….
Some of the papers I still read on line don’t seem as user friendly as they once were. I am told this is all about the owners making them more user friendly for consumers on their phones and pads, who are expected to get used to paying for access. The new layout seems very clunky when compared to what I had become used too. Edward James