[Kevin]

www.perthnow.com.au

This is the new website of The Sunday Times and I must say I am extremely impressed that Perth *finally* has a decent up-to-the-minute online news service. It's been a long time coming and I'm sure it will be widely used
PerthNow is part of NEWS.com.au of course but it has it's own design and many more stories than the old Sunday Times website did.

PerthNow.com.au said:

PerthNow is WA's new daily internet news and information service. The launch of PerthNow means West Australians have an up-to-the-minute source of local, national and international news.

THE site is part of a new stable of websites being launched by News Ltd, the owner of The Sunday Times, across Australia.

PerthNow will draw heavily on the resources of the national news.com.au site for national and international news and on a newly created team based at The Sunday Times in Perth.

Editor of PerthNow , Allen Newton, said the site will offer the most complete news and information package available in WA.

The website will be interactive, offering its audience the opportunity to become involved in shaping the content of the site.

Citizen journalism, an emerging part of the overseas internet scene, will be encouraged on PerthNow, giving West Australians an opportunity to submit news and pictures to the site – even pictures taken on mobile phones are acceptable.

Users will be able to submit their own views about restaurants, books, music, movies, television and anything else provoking discussion in the community.

As the site grows it will be broadened to offer a host of community services and is intended to become a voice for the community of WA.

From weather to what’s on and breaking news to book reviews PerthNow will offer a wealth of material to its audience.

PerthNow will be a living entity with new material and new sections appearing constantly.
The main content areas will initially include:

* The latest breaking local, national and international news, a weather section with WA forecasts, radar and satellite imagery and a news archive to search for recent news items.

* Sport will be dedicated to the sporting events that have the most impact for West Australians and will then link into the extensive local, national and international coverage offered by Fox Sports.

* Business will offer local breaking business stories and links to the authoritative News.Com site, Business Owner and to a calculator page with calculators for everything from working out loan repayments to extra repayments, lump sum repayments, to work out your borrow power or what leasing repayments would be along with a saving calculator and a stamp duty calculator.

* An Entertainment section will feature all the important information about what’s on where from STM magazine in The Sunday Times along with Shannon Harvey’s movie reviews and the latest film news, there will be features on television personalities and information on what to look forward to on TV.

STM music editor Jay Hanna will supply the latest CD and live music reviews and there’ll be news from the local music scene and music downloads.

Along with an archive of STM arts editor Jan Hallam’s book reviews will be local news about the State’s thriving book publishing industry.

There will be an archive of STM restaurant reviewer Gail Williams’ restaurant reviews.

Lee Tate and Sian Briggs’ Perth Confidential column will provide the basis for the latest gossip around Perth.

Now, for the first time, Holly Wood’s Perth Confidential Socials will feature every photograph from every social gathering that Perth’s leading social writer Holly Wood attends.

* A Lifestyle section will feature an archive of Peter Forrestal’s wine reviews and stories along with news on produce and food and wine events.

Fashion editor Claire Davies will bring all the latest on style, fashion and beauty.

Fishing has become one of our most popular pastimes, so PerthNow will feature a guide to what’s biting where, how to catch it and how to cook it.

Travel from The Sunday Times ' Escape section will be on the site.

* Opinion, both from PerthNow users and of our staff writers and contributors will be a major element of the website. It offers the opportunity to present a much wider range of reader letters than could be run in The Sunday Times.

An exciting new opportunity will also be available to users in the form of blogs, which will allow a two-way discussion to take place between readers and bloggers.

* Fun will be the section to go to for daily horoscopes, quizzes and all the competitions running on the website.

* Users will be able to subscribe to a free daily newsletter that will deliver the very latest in what’s happening, locally, nationally and internationally, that will arrive in their email inbox each lunchtime

Great to see

[gregorius]

Best online website about perth is called THE WORST OF PERTH.

[gregorius]

gregorius, on Dec 8 2007, 11:54 AM, said:

Best online website about perth is called THE WORST OF PERTH.

If you like a bunch of self clapping self congratulatory bunch of wannabee socialist comedians that think their way more important and satyrical than they actually are that is.

Regarding the new initiatives for perth's foreshore.

Perth has some fantastic beauty no doubt but the cultural side has really been let down by counciller attitudes. Basically by being backward and totally without imagination. They can only comprehend perths skscraper development as only ever going along one street- example via St Georges tce. Any departure from this and it is seen as a heresy ie., no new developments or off shoots in a north/ southerly direction or even in a diagonal direction for that matter.
To them it seems Perth must forever be seen as primarily a nice picture shot. Basically it has to run in an east /westerly perspective of highrise development so the tourists can get some nice picture shots with their cameras across the riverbank on the opposite [southern] side of the Swan.

And of coarse development to the perth city councillers must never proceed down to the foreshore. Thats sacrosanct.

The fact that these people even now have the right to criticise or have any say whatsoever in this new proposal for the river precinct is just rediculous.

They've over the last 50 yrs just completely relegated perth as being a somewhat dull lacklustre & puerile type of city that exactly suits their mentality and lack of foresight and dimension.

I really dont know how they still seem to have credibility. Allannah whatshername should just dump the whole council if she's really suppossed to be the top person in the infrastructure dept. Perth amazes me. -GH

This post has been edited by gregorius: 29 April 2008 - 01:35 PM

[Slj]

Police swoop on Sunday Times office

Colleen Egan

BREAKING NEWS: POLICE from the WA Major Fraud Squad are currently executing a search warrant in the newsroom of The Sunday Times.

Sixteen officers are conducting an extensive search of the newspaper's office after interviewing the editor, Sam Weir, for about an hour.

The officers are searching for documents relating to a story written in February this year by staff reporter Paul Lampathakis.

The police contingent arrived at 2.30pm.

The story was a political piece on the Carpenter Government.

Police searching Lampathakis' desk were requested to take particular note of anything from the "expenditure review committee", which is chaired by Treasurer Eric Ripper.

The warrant is for: "Any and all documents pertaining to the information held by Sunday Times employees pertaining to the investigation conducted for the article titled 'Bid to buy Labor win:
Ripper wants $16m for poll', published on page 3 of the Sunday Times, 10th February 2008, including source details, notebook entries, records of conversation, editorial notes, scribings, telephone records, any form of recording (electronic or otherwise) and records of conversation.

Staff have been told by Detective Sergeant Alan Jane that police have been posted on all the building's exits.

Anyone who leaves will have their names and details taken and will be searched in a "cursory" way for the items on the warrant.

Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan says he has "no idea what is happening at The Sunday Times and is waiting for a briefing on the Major Fraud Squad raid.

Mr O'Callaghan has denied any political approaches by the Government over the story published in February at the centre of the raid.

The article centred on a pitch by Treasurer Eric Ripper for more campaign funds.

"I don't know what the police are doing there," the Commissioner said.

"I've only just heard it is in progress and I've asked for a briefing from (Assistant Commissioner) Wayne Gregson as to what's going on."

Mr O'Callaghan said he knew nothing about the raid or line of investigation.

Asked if he had been approached by anyone in the Government regarding an investigation of a Sunday Times story, he said: "Absolutely not."

The police swoop today comes just weeks after The Sunday Times was quizzed on April 8 over another exclusive story by Paul Lampathakis, revealing that old Royal Perth Hospital computers were left in an alley way near the hospital, containing sensitive private medical details of hospital patients.

Attorney-general Jim McGinty made a complaint to police that The Sunday Times had illegally removed the computers. No action was taken against the paper.

Perthnow

[Kevin]

Slj, on Apr 30 2008, 04:11 PM, said:

Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan says he has "no idea what is happening at The Sunday Times and is waiting for a briefing on the Major Fraud Squad raid.

Slj, on Apr 30 2008, 04:11 PM, said:

"I don't know what the police are doing there," the Commissioner said.

Slj, on Apr 30 2008, 04:11 PM, said:

Mr O'Callaghan said he knew nothing about the raid or line of investigation.

Repetitive much?

[cartman]

Kevin, on Apr 30 2008, 04:30 PM, said:

Repetitive much?

I don't know.

I'm not sure.

I have no idea.

[Spiral Media]

i'm concerned..

concered for the welfare of my fellow media employees.

i hope they are ok.

[Firetorch]

PerthNow is shit.

PerthNow is shit.

PerthNow is shit.

[Mediawatch]

Firetorch, on Apr 30 2008, 10:10 PM, said:

PerthNow is shit.

PerthNow is shit.

PerthNow is shit.

i'm not too sure what you're trying to say......

[Kevin]

Mediawatch, on May 1 2008, 08:12 AM, said:

i'm not too sure what you're trying to say......

[Kevin]

Their newest logo looks a lot like YouTube's logo

[Spiral Media]

i dont see it Kevin......

[Jeffmister]

Spiral Media, on May 31 2008, 05:02 AM, said:

i dont see it Kevin......

The red box (where now is) looks like the red box from the YouTube logo.

[Tim]

Well done Einstein..

[Firetorch]

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

[Firetorch]

Can someone tell me why this trashy site continues to allow comments to be posted to this story?

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/comments/0...21-2761,00.html

Of course it's still headline news on the site because they love big nasty debates like this which draws people back to the site.

[trisreed]

Seems a bit of a fail here...spot what's wrong?

[Smacca]

[trisreed]

What I'd like to know is why there's a Seven watermark on it anyway considering the game was shown on TEN... if they got the picture from Seven who got it from Ten you think they could skip the middle man...

[Vacuum Robot]

I'm from perth

[cartman]

Vacuum Robot, on Jun 22 2009, 12:52am, said:

I'm from perth

I feel sorry for you...