newmatilda.com, commonly known as New Matilda, is a left-wing independent
Australia
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n website of news, analysis and satire.
History
The website was established by
John Menadue
John Laurence Menadue (born 8 February 1935) is an Australian businessman and public commentator, and formerly a senior public servant and diplomat. He served as Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1975 to 1976, work ...
in August 2004. Its founding editor was Natasha Cica. The website is now registered in the name of Cordell Media Pty Ltd.
In May 2007, the policy section of newmatilda.com separated to become the
Centre for Policy Development
Centre for Policy Development is a public policy think tank in Australia. CPD claims to be independent and non-partisan.
Personnel Past research fellows
*Mark Bahnisch , a left-wing think tank.
On 27 May 2010, editor
Marni Cordell announced that the publication would cease on 25 June, due to financial support drying up.
On 8 October 2010, Cordell announced that newmatilda.com would be returning as a reader supported site.
The site raised more than $150,000 in a six-week fundraising campaign and is now back up and running and publishing daily. However, webanalytics for January 2016 showed the site was barely performing, rated at 2989 for Australian sites, compared to, for example, 36 for ''
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
'', or 936 for
Crikey.com.
In May 2014, Cordell announced her resignation and painted an uncertain future for New Matilda.
Since then it has continued publishing under its new editor Chris Graham, an investigative journalist and former editor of the ''
National Indigenous Times
The ''National Indigenous Times'' (NIT) is an Indigenous Australian affairs website, originally published as a newspaper from February 2002.
History
''National Indigenous Times'' was first published in newspaper form on 27 February 2002. It was ...
''.
Content
The website publishes around 20 articles per week covering Australian politics, business, consumerism, capitalism, race relations, civil society, international affairs, media and culture.
Including editorials, a total of 288 articles were published in 2004, 660 articles in 2005, 636 articles in 2006, 631 articles in 2007, 755 articles in 2008 and 736 articles in 2009.
Political cartoons
Beginning in May 2008, the website featured the satirist cartoons of
Bill Leak
Desmond Robert "Bill" Leak (9 January 1956 – 10 March 2017) was an Australian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist.
Raised in Condobolin and Beacon Hill, Sydney, Leak attended Julian Ashton Art School during the 1970s. His cart ...
.
They have since denounced Leak many times, in very strong terms, the most recent being in March 2017, by
Michael Brull. The title was "RIP Bill Leak… You Boring Racist Who Ran With The Pack And Upheld Every Murdoch Orthodoxy".
Notes
External links
*{{official website, http://www.newmatilda.com/
Australian news websites
Internet properties established in 2004