Winner of the 2013 Walkey book award:
Killing Fairfax
Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge

An incisive, hard-hitting and utterly compelling exposé of media, powerful mates and multimillion-dollar deals.

With exclusive and unprecedented access to both Murdoch and Packer, as well as an extraordinary line-up of Australian business leaders and influential powerbrokers, Killing Fairfax is a powerful insiders’ story of the deals, the power plays and the machinations behind the decline of the influential media company Fairfax, publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age And The Australian Financial Review. (more…)

Tales From The Political Trenches
by award winning former journalist Maxine McKew
‘An amazingly frank insider account of an extraordinary time in Australian politics’ Peter Fitzsimmons (more…)

The Australian Moment Author: George Megalogenis “There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use our brains in a boom.…

The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management: how to manage the media in the digital age by Jane Jordan-Meier
A former journalist with Australian Consolidated Press in Sydney, Jane Jordan-Meier has been at the forefront of media training and crisis management for over two decades. She developed a unique four-stage methodology for crisis management whilst at the helm of Australia’s leading media training consultancy, Media Skills. The methodology has been used around the world by hundreds of organizations and thousands of executives, and is now the focus of her book: The Four Highly Effective Stages of Crisis Management.
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The Google Story is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organisations of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, this book takes you…

This award-winning journalist well known as the face of The Midday Show, A Current Affair, 60 Minutes and Carols by Candlelight has written every word of this autobiography. A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the machinations of big TV corporations, such as ABC and Channel 9. (more…)

Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy By Lindsay Tanner
When Lindsay Tanner resigned in 2010 as the ALP’s federal minister for finance and member for Melbourne, having had an 18-year career as an MP, he notably managed to retire with his reputation for integrity intact. In Sideshow, he lays bare the relentless decline of political reporting and political behaviour that occurred during his career. Part memoir, part analysis, and part critique, Sideshow is a unique book that tackles the rot which has set in at the heart of Australian public life.
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The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management: Your essential blueprint for developing a crisis communication plan in today’s social media age.
In a crisis, especially in today’s lightning-fast digital age, there’s little time for planning. The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management eliminates guesswork by helping professionals plan their crisis communication strategy based on predictable patterns of a crisis, from the triggering event to the stages that unfold because of it.
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In its fourth edition, Style Guide a comprehensive manual for journalists and writers is now available.
Is “alright” all right? Is it nerve-wracking or nerve-racking? Why can’t you sail into unchartered waters? Can you spell asphalt, diphtheria and Kosciuszko? Should it be reopen or re-open? The answers to these questions – and thousands more – are in Style Guide. (more…)