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| Katharine Viner answers your questions: live Q&A | Katharine Viner answers your questions: live Q&A |
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| Guardian Australia turned six months this week. Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, will be answering your questions starting at 12.30 AEST. | Guardian Australia turned six months this week. Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, will be answering your questions starting at 12.30 AEST. |
| Ask her anything – she will be taking questions about Guardian Australia's first six months, the Guardian/ABC scoop about Australia spying on Indonesia, the Ashes and more. Post your questions below. | Ask her anything – she will be taking questions about Guardian Australia's first six months, the Guardian/ABC scoop about Australia spying on Indonesia, the Ashes and more. Post your questions below. |
| Could you estimate the daily reach of the Guardian Australia in Australia and benchmark it against the established online publishers with print publications such as the SMH.com.au & dailytelegraph.com.au? | Could you estimate the daily reach of the Guardian Australia in Australia and benchmark it against the established online publishers with print publications such as the SMH.com.au & dailytelegraph.com.au? |
| Are you happy with those in roads into the Australian media landscape? | Are you happy with those in roads into the Australian media landscape? |
| How much growth do you expect the Guardian will make in 2014 with British rival the MailOnline making an appearance? | How much growth do you expect the Guardian will make in 2014 with British rival the MailOnline making an appearance? |
| Six months (and one day) after launch, we're far beyond where we expected to be; it's been fantastic. Nielsen figures are good, but our own internal figures are even better. As for the Mail - all plurality is good, but I don't see us as 'rivals' as such.. we cover very different things. | Six months (and one day) after launch, we're far beyond where we expected to be; it's been fantastic. Nielsen figures are good, but our own internal figures are even better. As for the Mail - all plurality is good, but I don't see us as 'rivals' as such.. we cover very different things. |
| Hi Katharine! You cannot imagine how grateful we are that Guardian Australia is offering a quality alternative media source in Australia. Are you satisfied with the trends of numbers of readers using the site? Can you share any of them with us? | Hi Katharine! You cannot imagine how grateful we are that Guardian Australia is offering a quality alternative media source in Australia. Are you satisfied with the trends of numbers of readers using the site? Can you share any of them with us? |
| Thank you! Nielsen shows that we've overtaken the Australian and the Telegraph in reach already, and our internal figures show us doing even better than that. But the best thing is that we're seeing great engagement, with people returning day after day to read what we're doing. | Thank you! Nielsen shows that we've overtaken the Australian and the Telegraph in reach already, and our internal figures show us doing even better than that. But the best thing is that we're seeing great engagement, with people returning day after day to read what we're doing. |
| Are you profitable? If not, when? | |
| Guardian Australia only launched in May and it's already way, way ahead of plan. | |
| What's the thing you're most proud of doing in the last six months? | |
| Getting Guardian Australia to where it is now, with a thriving team of journalists and commercial staff, leading the news agenda for ten days in a row (and counting...) with the Indonesia spying story, with fantastic coverage of politics, asylum, indigenous affairs, the arts, the Ashes, even Aussie rules footy..... And finding a whole load of new voices writing about Australian affairs... When in February there were two of us in an tiny office on Pitt St with internet so bad that we couldn't Skype! | |
| Hi Katharine, | |
| How long did you sit on the Indonesian spying story before releasing the information? Are the allegations true that you waited until after the election so that the fall-out from the story would negatively impact on the Abbot Gvt? | |
| As I've said many times, the story emerged only the week before we published it. Of course its publication wasn't politically motivated and no one has any evidence for that whatsoever, because it doesn't exist. Since the Guardian in the US received the Snowden papers in May, the US team has been going through them in a very careful, responsible way, which takes a lot of time. We've published at least 17 major international stories based on the papers since then, and we''ve so far published stories based on less than one per cent of the material we were given. This isn't the great conspiracy that some people are trying to suggest. | |
| Hey Kath, | |
| I'd like to know, how does Guardian reporter Oliver Laughland keep his hair looking so great? I think the public has the right to know. | |
| Seriously, it's a brilliant head of hair. | |
| I believe it's his high-sugar diet | |
| Great work so far Kath. Have you any plans to expand your local Business Section, and that is not a inference against Greg's work. You have a great team there Kath, keep it rolling!. | |
| Thanks! Everything is on the table at the moment.. | |
| Hi Katharine, | |
| Firstly, as a religious Guardian reader for the past 15 years, it was great to see the Aussie edition come in so soon after I moved here. Congrats. | |
| My question is, did you see the article from Paul Sheehan from the SMH? It is here for those who haven't http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/tony-abbotts-10-ways-out-of-this-mess-20131124-2y3se.html | |
| This statement caught my eye in particular: "There's not much point in calling into question the judgment of the Prime Minister, and his chief pollster, without calling into question the judgment of the people who started this conflagration, Katharine Viner, the editor The Guardian Australia, and Mark Scott, the managing director of the ABC." | |
| I would have expected this from one of the Murdoch papers, but to call into question the ethics of breaking such an important story from a Fairfax paper was a surprise to me. Thoughts? | |
| In a democracy, with a free press, it's important to have a whole range of voices on such an important issues as this. | |
| Fairfax have started putting a walled garden around their online papers, I believe it is thirty articles per month and then it blocks access. How do you see the payment model of online newspapers playing out? | |
| I think paywalls work for some organisations and not for others; the jury is out. At the Guardian, we are hoping to keep access open as much as possible, because we value engaging with readers in an open way and think that paywalls are in opposition to open journalism. But they may work for others, especially those with more specialist content. | |
| Hi Katherine | |
| Has the Guardian Australia been accepted by the Canberra press pack - do you have accreditation etc or our Fairfax and Murdoch Inc circling the wagons? | |
| I'm not sure that anyone could stop the formidable force that is Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy! | |
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