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	<title>The Content Makers</title>
	
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		<title>Fairfax Melbourne Managing Director Don Churchill’s Departing Herogram to Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Colleagues, My indication to the company to retire from the business, announced today, comes after a wonderful and exciting 46 years plus in the media industry in both New Zealand and Australia. There will be plenty of time for me to talk to...<br/>
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		<title>Managing Director of Fairfax, Melbourne Resigns</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The following announcement regarding the resignation of Don Churchill was emailed to Age staff this afternoon. Read tomorrow&#8217;s Crikey email for some analysis. Chu Subject: All Fairfax Media staff announcement Colleagues As some of you have...<br/>
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		<title>A Civic Emergency. What’s Good and Bad for Journalism in the NotW Scandal This Week.</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2011/07/22/a-civic-emergency-whats-good-and-bad-for-journalism-in-the-notw-scandal-this-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I thought I’d riff a little on the question of whether this has been a good or bad week for journalism. The riff is inspired by a talk I had last night with an old mate and journalist. He is one of those who has never worked for PR, and who has...<br/>
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		<title>ABCNews24 wishes itself Happy Birthday</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/contentmakers/~3/SJjmjQ_1ibY/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2011/07/21/abcnews24-wishes-itself-happy-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The ABC just put out a media release wishing its 24 hour television service happy birthday. Given my comments over the last couple days (see previous posts) I&#8217;d like to see a commitment to respond faster to breaking news. Having said that,...<br/>
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		<title>…and what Gillard said.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Most of the news bulletins are carrying only the strongest bit of Gillard&#8217;s comments on News Limited. In the latter bits, she is a little less Bolshiei, though hardly clear on what she is and isn&#8217;t saying. Here is the complete transcript...<br/>
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		<title>News Limited CEO John Hartigan’s Response to Julia Gillard</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/contentmakers/~3/cat9N9Zrh7Q/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2011/07/20/news-limited-ceo-john-hartigans-response-to-julia-gillard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From: &#8220;Corporate Affairs&#8221; Date: 20 July 2011 5:21:18 PM AEST To: &#8220;Corporate Affairs&#8221; Subject: John Hartigan&#8217;s Response to the Prime Minister John Hartigan’s Response to the Prime Minister July 20, 2011 News Limited...<br/>
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		<title>FFS, ABCNews24!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The piece I wrote for the Crikey email this morning was already very long, so I cut out a spray for ABCNews24. The point of a twenty four hour news channel is just that. And those of us who did not have access to Sky News or the BBC last night have...<br/>
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		<title>Rupert Murdoch to Staff</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/contentmakers/~3/V3vQctc7WKA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2011/07/20/rupert-murdoch-to-staff-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The following message from Rupert Murdoch just landed in News Limited employees&#8217; inboxes. ear Colleagues: Today, James and I appeared before a committee of the UK Parliament with regard to the issues connected to the News of the World. We did...<br/>
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		<title>Rupert Murdoch to Staff</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2011/07/20/rupert-murdoch-to-staff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The following message from Rupert Murdoch just landed in News Limited employees&#8217; inboxes. ear Colleagues: Today, James and I appeared before a committee of the UK Parliament with regard to the issues connected to the News of the World. We did...<br/>
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		<title>Murdoch Bingo</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2011/07/19/murdoch-bingo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The media junkies among us will be sitting up late tonight to watch the live coverage of the Murdoch family&#8217;s appearance before the British parliamentary committee. Dan Cass will be one of them, and he has forwarded me something to help the...<br/>
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