Showing posts with label The Daily Examiner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Daily Examiner. Show all posts

Wednesday 14 July 2021

News Corp's The Daily Examiner continues to die the death of a thousand cuts




The Clarence Valley had a resident population of est. 51,730 souls in 2020.


Up until mid 2020 it was home to three print newspapers, The Daily Examiner, Coastal Views and the Clarence Valley Independent


Only the 'Independent' remains as a print newspaper with a dedicated website, as the other two were part of a media purchase made by foreign-owned News Corp Inc. and these print mastheads have been allowed to wither and die.


In July 2021 News Corp boasts The Daily Examiner has a digital Facebook following of est. 20,747 people (presumably worldwide), an Instagram following of 1,806 and, a Twitter account showing one published tweet from 2009 with a following of only 105.


There is of course no longer a print circulation or a presence on Press Reader because Rupert Murdoch quickly killed off this newspaper which had been the purveyor of news from 1859 to mid 2020. Even its dedicated web address now redirects to a section of The Daily Telegraph website called “Grafton News”


One is left to wonder when the ghost of The Daily Examiner masthead will fade from the Internet completely. 


The corporate planned lingering death of a news outlet is sad to witness.


Sunday 28 March 2021

The Daily Examiner presence in the Clarence Valley further diminished

 

In 2016 the Australian Consumer Competition Commission (ACCC) gave the nod to U.S. based News Corp’s purchase of Australian Regional Media (ARM) from APN News & Media.


The Daily Examiner print newspaper and news website were part of that purchase.


On 27 June 2020 after 161 years of continuous editions, The Daily Examiner was printed and distributed for the last time, as more than 100 regional newspapers were sent digital by the new owner of ARM.


The masthead’s paywalled website remained as www.dailyexaminer.com.au.


However, recently 'rationalisation'  has seen this masthead website disappear and all traffic now redirected to https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/grafton.



This redirection to The Daily Telegraph is occurring across many NSW & Qld regional news websites held by News Corp.

Thursday 30 April 2020

Is this the youngest 'wanted man' involved in a car pursuit in Coffs-Clarence Police District?


From The Daily Examiner, 28 April 2020, p.5:

Officers were notified and engaged in a pursuit with the taxi before road spikes were deployed on the Pacific Highway at Moonee Beach. A -year-old man was arrested after short foot pursuit.


*Animated gif found at Google Images

Saturday 30 November 2019

When a frontpage montage goes horribly wrong


The Daily Examiner, Page One, 28 November 2019

Ghostly onlookers to an unfolding environmental and societal disaster - transparent bodies and a missing head turns this unacknowledged montage into a mockery of the current emergency.

Wednesday 10 July 2019

Maybe misdemeanours


Grafton’s Daily Examiner has been very creative in recent times with the introduction of a new feature that’s being displayed on its website.
The average reader will not have the luxury of seeing all the details in the new regular section because it’s hidden by the paper’s paywall - only subscribers get to see it. Subscribers can scroll down the online page and see a heading like this one.

Really, does the local paper have so many slow news days that it thinks it’s on a winner with its latest “innovation”.
A contributor to the paper’s letter section has expressed an opinion about the paper’s strategy(see below).


Concern over court lists

I am distressed to see The Daily Examiner listing people going to court each day.

I think this is not appropriate. These people are facing up to situations that will be addressed by the court. They do not need or deserve to be named and shamed in public, without any context.

There are many reasons people end up in court. I don’t think it’s appropriate that merely for attending a court hearing they are named in the newspaper. Fine if their issue becomes newsworthy. But the mere fact of them appearing is not sufficient to justify public interest. In fact it could be severely damaging.

Fiona Hardie, Tullymorgan

Perhaps the paper could examine a couple of other topics to more gainfully occupy their journalists’ time. A couple that spring to mind are waiting times at the A&E departments of local hospitals and supermarket checkouts.

Source: The Daily Examiner, July 9, 2019, print edition and webpage

Credit to my mate Elwyn, who doesn’t miss a trick, for providing a heads up for this post.

Saturday 6 July 2019

Brian says what many others are thinking

A contributor to the letters section of  Grafton's Daily Examiner, which is distributed primarily throughout the Clarence Valley, has highlighted an issue in Yamba.

However, its relevance has much wider application.

Thanks Brian, for putting this unacceptable driving misbehaviour out there for others and, hopefully those to whom he writes about, to read and in the case of the latter,hopefully remedying their ways.

Credits:
Firstly, and most importantly, Brian A. Simpson



Tuesday 25 June 2019

The Daily Examiner celebrates 160 years


Admittedly, this bloke hasn't always seen eye to eye with the Clarence Valley's local daily newspaper, The Daily Examiner. Some its efforts have caused more than a raised eyebrow.

However, chalking up 160 years of continuous coverage since it was first published as The Clarence and Richmond Examiner on June 21, 1859 is no mean feat. Last Friday the paper celebrated the occasion.

Congratulations DEX.




Credit: Image of The Daily Examiner's page 1 on Friday, June 21, 2019 (https://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/)


Friday 14 December 2018

Australia’s Chief Scientist gives the Clarence Valley’s Daily Examiner a polite serve



This is what happens when a once proud 159 year-old newspaper is brought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and begins to publish the political rot that Andrew Bolt spews forth…….

The Daily Examiner, letter to the Editor, 11 December 2018, p.13:

Doing nothing on climate change not an option

On Tuesday, December 4 you published an opinion piece by Andrew Bolt titled, ‘Less marching, more learning’, which included a reference to me ‘admitting’ that we “could stop all Australia’s emissions – junk every car, shut every power station, put a cork in every cow – and the effect on the climate would still be ‘virtually nothing’.”

Those are Andrew Bolt’s words, not mine, and they are a complete misrepresentation of my position.

They suggest that we should do nothing to reduce our carbon emissions, a stance I reject, and I wish to correct the record.

On June 1, 2017 I attended a Senate Estimates hearing where Senator Ian Macdonald asked if the world was to reduce its carbon emissions by 1.3 per cent, which is approximately Australia’s rate of emissions, what impact would that make on the changing climate of the world.

My response was that the impact would be virtually nothing, but I immediately continued by explaining that doing nothing is not a position that we can responsibly take because emissions reductions is a little bit like voting, in that if everyone took the attitude that their vote does not count and no-one voted, we would not have a democracy.

Similarly, if all countries that have comparable carbon emissions took the position that they shouldn’t take action because their contribution to this global problem is insignificant, then nobody would act and the problem would continue to grow in scale.

Let me be clear, we need to continue on the path of reducing Australia’s carbon emissions. The fact remains that Australia’s emissions per person are some of the highest in the world.

In response to the recent IPCC report, I urged all decision makers – in government, industry, and the community – to listen to the science and focus on the goal of reducing emissions, while maximising economic growth.
I was upfront about the magnitude of the task: it is huge and will require a global effort.

We’ve never been a nation to shy away from a challenge, or from shouldering our fair share of the responsibility for solving global issues.

Sitting on our hands while expecting the rest of the world to do their part is simply not acceptable.

Dr Alan Finkel AO,
Australia’s Chief Scientist. [my yellow highlighting]