By Zane | Published:
Sunday, 24th December, 2006
Sorry John, I dont have grad pictures but I’m organising for my mum to send me some. I thought an update would be just as good though.
Well first full-time job and it’s go go go. Seem to be at work for a fair chunk of the day but I’m really enjoying it, can’t complain [...]
By Zane | Published:
Monday, 9th October, 2006
I would like to speak on behalf of all Jschool students in congratulating our peer Merrin Jagtman on securing a cadetship at the BBC in Essex. What an awesome achievement! Its not me, and I’m excited.
However, its sad (albeit exciting to) that Jschool will be finishing soon and some of our classmates will be [...]
By Zane | Published:
Monday, 25th September, 2006
When I last posted about my DEX work experience it was on a Wednesday, so here is all of the Thursday/Friday action that followed.
Well actually Wednesday night was pretty full on, couldn’t sleep all night due to kids playing up outside on bikes, made even worse by their parents shouting out gems like “You f*#$ing [...]
By Zane | Published:
Thursday, 21st September, 2006
I know he will be embarrassed by my posting this but I think it’s great kudos from a well-known man in the media industry.
-> have a look here
Politically, I don’t agree with the vast majority of what Bolt says (Liberal Party spokesman, Howard and G.W Bush champion, blaming the harmless Judas Priest on playing a [...]
By Zane | Published:
Wednesday, 20th September, 2006
Hi all, just thought I’d put a quick few words up about my last few days here at the Grafton Daily Examiner (DEX if you’re in the know).
Nothing dramatic like a bomb scare (sounds cool Merrin) but I have been kept pretty busy. The editor here is a cool guy and the news conferences in [...]
By Zane | Published:
Monday, 4th September, 2006
For those who missed it, St Kilda made a mockery of their 15 year losing streak at the Gabba to annihilate the hapless Brisbane Lions by 51 points. St Kilda dominated from start to finish, but potential last gamer Michael Voss can hold his head up high after a great performance for the losing team. [...]
By Zane | Published:
Monday, 28th August, 2006
From Britain’s The Guardian:
It is a sport where men are men, players who go down injured are derided as ‘poofs’…
…Yet Manchester City (English soccer team) have decided to challenge football’s taboo by becoming a champion of equal rights, hiring gays to work at its stadium and training ground and attracting new supporters from the city’s [...]
By Zane | Published:
Monday, 21st August, 2006
Well Monday was the quietest day I had at the GCB, and that’s saying something! Nothing was happening on the scanner, nothing major from the weekend and nothing on the rounds. Because it was quiet, after doing some vox pops I trawled through hansard and found some good stories. They didn’t get a run but [...]
By Zane | Published:
Friday, 18th August, 2006
If Sir Paul developed a pokie machine gambling addiction costing him millions, could he say he had been robbed by the one armed bandit and a one legged bandit?
By Zane | Published:
Wednesday, 16th August, 2006
Don’t you think its funny that Labor MP Nita Cunningham, the one who quit suddenly due to ill-health, and in effect triggered the election, is the member for Bundaberg?
Ill-health, Bundaberg. Ill-health, Bundaberg. Ill-health, Bundaberg… hmmmm
I wonder if she checked into hospital.
By Zane | Published:
Monday, 14th August, 2006
The rumours are true everyone… I am moving to the sports department tomorrow, YES!
That is all.
Zane
By Zane | Published:
Sunday, 13th August, 2006
Well on my first post ever I told you all about my poor friend Justin Koschitzke and his injury woes (if you remember Media Watch bemoaned the fact that he was the first story on Channel 9 news one night, rather unfairly I thought). Well GREAT news he made his comeback today (Sunday), played [...]
By Zane | Published:
Friday, 11th August, 2006
Well bearing in mind I was with the police reporters for the week, I’ll start by quoting the chief police reporter – “This was one of the slowest crime weeks we’ve had in years, sorry mate.” That sums it up pretty well, my last few days have been quiet but I’ve had the chance to [...]
By Zane | Published:
Tuesday, 8th August, 2006
Firstly, I would like to give a big HELLO to my Jschool peers. I hope it is all going ok for you all, with the array of newspapers we are at I’m sure we’ll all have cool different stories to tell when we get back to class.
Day One
Needless to say when i turned up on [...]
By Zane | Published:
Monday, 31st July, 2006
Good old Queensland, just when you thought we were catching up on the two decades worth of progress we missed out on under dictator Joh, our regressive nature comes back to kick sensibility and forward thinking right up the backside.
The people of Toowoomba this weekend had the chance to show Australia that hey, we’re [...]
By Zane | Published:
Monday, 31st July, 2006
No, “what a disaster” isn’t a description of the night, but the name of the forum we attended on Thursday night (Thursday 27th July to be exact). Moderated by Channel 10’s Cathy Border, the forum what a disaster: assessing media coverage of trauma and tragedy was informative, entertaining and insightful thanks to heartfelt and honest [...]
By Zane | Published:
Wednesday, 26th July, 2006
Media Watch should leave poor Justin Koschitzke alone, hasn’t he suffered enough?
Although I understand their argument, it is pretty misleading on Media Watch’s behalf. It wasn’t a VFL reserves game, but a VFL senior game. And it wasn’t just any VFL player, it was the AFL star Justin Koschitzke.
Because it was Koschitzke (Koz-it-ski) it has [...]