A Conversation With Andrew Ramadge, news.com.au and music journalist
Here’s a conversation I had in August with Andrew Ramadge [pictured right], one of my favourite Australian journalists. He writes about consumer technology for news.com.au, and music for Mess+Noise and...
View ArticleA Conversation With Damian Kulash, OK Go singer/guitarist
OK Go are an American pop band. I don’t want to cheapen their career by naming just its apex, but it’s the easiest way to refresh your memory: they’re the band behind ‘Here It Goes Again‘, better known...
View Articletriple j mag story: ‘Music Counts For Something’, September 2010
A feature for the September 2010 issue of the recently-renamed triple j mag, which discusses what Australian musicians make from selling music as a proportion of their overall income. The full article...
View ArticleNYWM 2011: A conversation about freelance journalism with John Birmingham and...
Embedded below is footage of my first live Q+A event as Queensland ambassador for National Young Writers’ Month 2011: a conversation about freelance journalism with John Birmingham and Benjamin Law....
View ArticleAusIndies.com.au guest post: ‘Artist patronage’, September 2011
A guest post for AusIndies.com.au, the online home of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR). Excerpt below. Artist patronage: What does it mean to be a fan in 2011? If you tell me...
View ArticleThe Weekend Australian album review: Death Grips –‘The Money Store’, May 2012
An album review for The Weekend Australian, originally published on May 12. Death Grips – The Money Store By combining the ethos and aesthetics of punk-rock and electronica with hip-hop, Californian...
View ArticleCNET story: ‘The Man Who Virtually Has It All’, March 2013
A feature story for CNET Australia; excerpt below. The man who virtually has it all A 30 year-old Sydneysider has amassed a small fortune by trading virtual items for real cash in the online game...
View ArticleGood Weekend story: ‘The Whistleblowers: Australian football referees’, July...
A feature for Good Weekend, the colour magazine published with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age each Saturday. This is my first story for the magazine. Excerpt below. The Whistleblowers Who’d want...
View ArticleThe New York Times story: ‘How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed...
My first story for The New York Times was published on May 11. Excerpt below. How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout Its businesses and consumers burdened with some of...
View ArticleBackchannel story: ‘The Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral...
A feature story for Backchannel. Excerpt below. The Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money Steemit is a social network with the radical idea of paying users for their contributions. But...
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