Tag: Guardian

The rise of the reader: journalism in the age of the open web [Article]

Katherine Viner is the editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia. This is the text of her AN Smith lecture in Melbourne during October. Or you can watch the hour-long video here.

A newspaper is complete. It is finished, sure of itself, certain. By contrast, digital news is constantly updated, improved upon, changed, moved, developed, an ongoing conversation and collaboration. It is living, evolving, limitless, relentless.

Newer tools are overwhelming established industries – and journalism is no different. A more recent story here.

We want privacy from the government but are an open book on social media [Article]

Lindsey Bever explains:

Although there’s an important distinction to be made between information we voluntarily sign away and private data that’s seemingly subject to unwarranted searches and collection, many of us are inconsistent in our release of personal data. We’re quick to hand over our privacy rights to corporations, but we get touchy when the government tampers with our information – even when we might be the ones allowing it.

How one Irish woman made $22bn for Apple in a year [Article]

It is rather unlikely that the world speaks about Cathy Kearney in the same breath as Steve Jobs or Tim Cook. As Tim Cook appeared at the Senate committee hearing last week to explain Apple’s corporate tax avoidance affairs, Guardian profiles the Irish accountant who shuns publicity, and is thought to be brains behind the Cork office that helped Apple save billions in taxes.

Company profits depend on the ‘welfare payments’ they get from society [Article]

Ha-Joon Chang, writing in the Guardian, demonstrates that the free market is a myth.  Company profits depend on the ‘welfare payments’ they get from society.

It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes

Why the world needs more Bradley Mannings & Wikileaks [Article]

Andrew Sullivan, referring to the Guardian’s 15-month investigation, sheds new light on the atrocities that Donald Rumsfeld & his political masters allowed to be perpetrated on the Iraqi populace, hidden behind the lies of “weapons of mass destruction”.  ……. “I remember a 14-year-old who was tied to one of the library’s columns. And he was tied up, with his legs above his head. Tied up. His whole body was blue because of the impact of the cables with which he had been beaten.”