Saturday, 6 September 2008
In the engine room are publisher Diana Gribble, general manager Amber Sloan, advertising director Steve Murray, marketing and subscriptions manager Marika Webb-Pullman, business development manager Alexia Touchette, traffic coordinator Brielie-Jean Hudson and subscriber services coordinator and office administrator Monica Maric.
Lobbing stories in from far and wide are Crikey founder Stephen Mayne, national affairs editor Bernard Keane, media writers Margaret Simons and Glenn Dyer, our US correspondent Guy Rundle, philosopher and psephologist Charles Richardson and the compilers of Marcus Today on the morning’s stock market. First Dog on the Moon's cartoons appear daily, his videos appear weekly, and he pops up in person occasionally as well. Regular and irregular contributions arrive from many well-informed members of the Crikey Army.
The owner of Crikey is Private Media Pty Ltd, a gang of four that along with Eric Beecher and Diana Gribble includes Crikey life member and marketing guru John Addis from Tyagarah (we don’t know where that is either) and creative director Chong Weng Ho from the place he calls Far Kew.
Contacts:
5 September 2008
NSW Labor in turmoil - Iemma, Costa dumped
Rundle on John McCain's big speech
Finding $39million a month: the pips squeak at PBL
Tim Flannery: Garnaut has made a good first step
Next Crikey Email 1300 hrs 8 September
So it is that every year, our shaman gather in Canberra. Like priests before a ritual they are sealed off from the profane world in a special retreat (‘the lock-up’) and bonded together in a sacred pact, which sets them off as a distinct group against the rest of their people.