Jock Given

Aug 5, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Mark Hodgkinson |Jock Given

The Big Four of men’s tennis are not leaving quickly or quietly. Amazon Prime released a documentary about the Twelve Final Days of Roger Federer’s career in June. A new book about Novak Djokovic was published in early July. Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Djokovic all showed up in Paris to play in the Olympic Games a few weeks later. Paris was definitely the end for the Scot, who played his “home” championships at Wimbledon for the last time in June.

Apr 24, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Jock Given

“I remember the days when you could go into government meetings… and representatives from the US Trade Representative Office would say ‘We can’t do that because it would violate our international commitments,’” American economist Douglas Irwin told an audience at the Productivity Commission in February. “That would shut down the debate.” But that constraint is no longer there, he says. Geopolitics is back.

Mar 19, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Jock Given

Brisbane’s deputy lord mayor was at the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch in January 1974, lobbying for the Queensland capital to host the 1982 Games, when the Brisbane River broke its banks. On the night of the opening ceremony, 24 January, Cyclone Wanda crossed the coast at Double Island Point north of Noosa.

Nov 3, 2023 | insidestory.org.au | Walter Isaacson |Jock Given

Some years ago, early in the century, a conceit took hold in media circles: the era of “media moguls” was ending. Michael Wolff, prolific chronicler of American media mega-trends, wrote a book about it, Autumn of the Moguls. Network TV was a mess, he said. The music business was a mess.

Jun 27, 2023 | insidestory.org.au | Jock Given

Over the last half-century, the mobile phone industry has been a model and a mirror for the world. The model was the future, a crisp idea of how things might be if inventors, governments, corporations and individuals could imagine and reach for it. The mirror was the present, the world as it is, a messy product of technology, power, business and culture that never stood still.