Katharine Murphy
Katharine Murphy is national affairs correspondent at The Age. She has been reporting on federal politics for more than a decade, starting at The Australian Financial Review, where she was Canberra chief of staff from 2001 to 2004, and moving to The Australian as a specialist writer from 2004 to 2006. She joined The Age in 2006. In 2008, she won the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism.
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Read all about it: journalism has a future!
Katharine Murphy Over this past weekend I've read too many last columns from friends and colleagues who are leaving journalism; the best of the best. Melancholia feels the only reasonable response.
The media must embrace reform to survive
Katharine Murphy Should we be surprised when it comes to media reform that most of the protagonists are working an angle?
Analysis
It's now or never for government on media reforms
Katharine Murphy Given how late the Gillard government has left its run on media reform, Conroy has little option now other than to crash or crash through.
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Abbott puts aside pugilism to set a new moral course
Katharine Murphy He's claiming a leadership role on recognition of indigenous Australians.
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Beware the distorting influence of the live news cycle
Katharine Murphy Media 'gatekeepers' can often help you weigh the significance of the news.
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Facebook and Twitter afford politicians more control
Katharine Murphy For a backroom boy, John McTernan attracts a lot of column centimetres. There's a negative perception inside the government that the Prime Minister's senior communications adviser courts publicity.
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The librarian's strategy
Katharine Murphy The tango between pollies and the media is changing. But will voters benefit?
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One parent's plea: hands off NAPLAN
Katharine Murphy Teachers are truly wonderful people. Anyone who has wandered onto the grounds of an ordinary neighbourhood public school gets that these people aren't in the occupation for the glory.
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Media reform? That summer is fading fast
Katharine Murphy I wonder if Justice Ray Finkelstein wants his summer back. Having rushed like blazes late last year to conduct a review of media policy for the Gillard government - conforming with a ridiculous...
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A duty to scrutinise
Katharine Murphy Thomson misunderstands the media if he thinks his denials are the end of the story.
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D-day looms for Gillard in her fight with the media barons
Katharine Murphy A former sex worker in a blonde wig versus the executive producer of a tabloid television current affairs show. Now that's some 'she said, he said' journalism for you.
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Feeding frenzy of news
Katharine Murphy Calls for regulation of the print media take too little account of the revolution in which journalists are now immersed.
