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Get Her Off the Pitch! How Sport Took Over My Life Lynne Truss Fourth Estate, $27.99 Reviewer Dianne Dempsey

Fairfax Media To Cut 550 Jobs In Australia, Nz

FAIRFAX Media's chief executive, David Kirk, will oversee a third redundancy round in three years, with 550 jobs to go as investors become increasingly sceptical about the company's ability to increase earnings in a slowing advertising market.

Return To The Hard Graft Of Nation-building Imperative Despite Setback

The former SBS journalist Stan Grant, now a senior communications manager for the World Bank, was in Dili yesterday.

A Newspaperman In The True Sense Of The Word

JOHN FITZGERALD JOURNALIST 31-7-1931 - 11-10-2007

Angry Clarkson Goes Too Far In Defence Of His Skipper

SOME weeks ago, Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson stomped out of a post-match media interview taking a swipe at a journalist and throwing a four-letter word in his direction.

Stressful Days Of Our Lives

IN ANY given year, so the statistics show, seven out of 10 Australians will change their jobs.

Damnation, Hunter Pays For Coast Neglect

WHEN we start new jobs and careers there are always milestones we remember. For me, the first bylined article I had published as a cadet journalist at The Herald was one of those milestones.

> Book > Film > Music > Relationships

> BOOK Jonestown, The power and the myth of Alan Jones. Investigative journalist Chris Masters reveals the paradoxes of a man who helps individuals find jobs, yet routinely trashes others' careers.

Fertile New World's Grateful Pioneer

Australia's first test-tube baby, born in the full glare of the media, is now an outspoken journalist, Erin O'Dwyer writes.

What Happens When A City Gets A Prison

The state's jail population has doubled since Labor won power in 1995. Now the Government has embarked on a jail expansion program which will include a new 500-bed facility in either the Illawarra or Shoalhaven. In a two-part series, senior journalist PAUL McINERNEY looks at the impact of new jails in regional centres.

The 5 Least Trusted Jobs Are...

Journalists, psychics and politicians are all on the nose, says a recent survey. Here, people in the most distrusted professions speak out.

Disunion Over The Existence Of A Higher Power

Your editorial ("The balancing of Senate power", Herald, July 1) may muse about the Senate's power and the people's will. However, I fear that it was exceptional prescience (with Australia of July 2005 in mind) that led the distinguished US journalist, Edward R. Murrow, to say: "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

Labor Targets Jobs In Final Push

Mark Latham yesterday set a Labor government the target of reducing unemployment from its present level of 5.7 per cent to under 5 per cent, and also pledged that he would not break a single campaign promise.

Hawks' Pom-born Boss Shows His True Colours

HE held a series of high level sports management jobs in England but Wollongong Hawks' new boss Peter Rowe has declared his loyalty to Australia.

Following In The Steps Of A Trailblazing Journalist

BOOK REVIEW: BACK ON THE WOOL TRACK, By Michelle Grattan, Vintage, $24.95

Derryn Hinch

Derryn Hinch, 3AW drive-time presenter and journalist.

Banker By Day Rock Star By Night

They've traded suits and ties for animal-print jackets and guitar-hero poses. But are these corporate rockers about to give up their day jobs?

Fight Permit Helps Pm Bring Labor's Messiah To Ground

Ordinary people doing their jobs very quickly get chewed up in Parliament.

Call This Hard Work?

There's more than meets the eye to some of television's "glamour" jobs. By Jenny Tabakoff and Bridie Smith.

Windows On The Middle East

Two new books, one by veteran journalist George Negus and the other by Weekender columnist Sandra Lee, deal in different ways with Islam, Iraq and the Middle East. GREG RAY reports.