newspapers in uni

[cara.mel]

Caramel, are you with the herald sun or the age? I subscribed for the hearld sun week end delivery and i think i have to wait 20 days before the newspapers arrive. At monash I can grab a copy of the age, herald sun or the australian and walk out the bookshop. You don't even need to show your subscription card.

The age, sometime near the start of O week so it would be 5.5 weeks now and still waiting
When they moved it to the bookshop it took me  a few days to work out where they'd gone XD

[excal]

I already get it caramel. Have been since Week 1

[DrowNz]

out of curiosity, are those tertiary papers any good? Apparently the VCE ones were quite useful according to some mates.

 I was thinking to subscribe to one of them since they are quite cheap (my uni does not offer them free)  but I am wondering whether the content is of any quality.

[Collin Li]

DrowNz, do you go to Melbourne? I know Melbourne has a lot of newspapers come to promote their subscriptions during O-Week. Right now, I think both the Herald Sun and The Age are becoming trash. Teachers and students seem to have a thing for The Age, and I used to as well, but I think it has changed. My friends (and they don't necessarily share my political views) have suggested it has taken a much more populist swing, and I agree. I'm not sure whether I've changed or whether The Age has changed, but nowadays it is not so great to read. Maybe students and teachers still prefer it as a relative thing. However, just because a paper written poorly, it doesn't mean you shouldn't read it. If your heart rate is a bit low, you might want to read stuff that gets you fired up .

There are other choices too. The Australian is supposed to be good but I never get my hands on it because I tend to never sign up for anything.

[cara.mel]

I already get it caramel. Have been since Week 1

I obviously know *you* get it, because sometimes I move it the long journey from the drive way to the front door for you. xD

[brendan]

I'm a selective newspaper reader, I read:

The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/
http://chronicle.com.ezproxy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/ (free for UoM students)

Wall Street Journal for breaking business news and for opinions.
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/opinion.html?mod=1_0045

The Financial Times for breaking news, and analysis from academic economists.
http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/
http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/

The NYT's education section and their opinion/blogs
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html

The Australian's Higher Education section - every Wednesday
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/highereducation/

The Age's Education section - every Monday
http://www.theage.com.au/education/

The Sydney Morning Herald's Education section
http://www.smh.com.au/education/

The Australian Financial Review Education section - every Monday
http://www.afr.com/home/weekly/education.aspx

Blogs:

Greg Mankiw's - professor of economics at Harvard
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/

Andrew Norton's - Advisor to Melb Uni VC Glyn Davis
http://andrewnorton.info/blog/

Gary Becker, Nobel laureate, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
Richard Posner - Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/

Steven Levitt - professor of economics at the University of Chicago
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

[DrowNz]

thanks guys!

[excal]

out of curiosity, are those tertiary papers any good? Apparently the VCE ones were quite useful according to some mates.

 I was thinking to subscribe to one of them since they are quite cheap (my uni does not offer them free)  but I am wondering whether the content is of any quality.

It's just the newstand copies of The Age, Herald Sun and/or The Australian...it's just at a MUCH cheaper price.