By Lachie McKenzie
Catherine Deveny should not have been sacked from The Age. The paper has lost support from her fans, and gained no new readers from her dismissal. From their point of view, a devenstating mistake.
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The Age Gets It’s Tweets In A Tangle
From ABC’s The Drum
By Jonathan Green
May 5 2010
Even as I write this The Age website is spruiking its story on the sacking of columnist Catherine Deveny and the attendant controversy. Her face is just above the fold (as, endearingly, we still say of websites) on theage.com.au homepage, with the headline “Deveny dropped: editor acts after Logies storm”. The comment counter is sitting at 567
An Audience With Catherine Deveny
From Newshit
By Emma Dilema
17 February 2010
Catherine Deveny may have inscribed the words onto my copy of her latest compilation of articles, Free to a Good Home, but after last night it was tattooed into my brain. Trust her to encapsulate the proceeds of an evening so succinctly, honestly, and with such balls.
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Interview With Catherine Deveny
From Theincblot.blogspot
Catherine Deveny’s latest book Free to a Good Home has just been released. The book collects the best of her television and opinion columns from the Age in 2009.
Love Her Or Loathe Her
From The Age
By Michael Lallo
December 11, 2008
Few columnists elicit such starkly contrasting responses as Catherine Deveny, and that’s just the way she likes it. Michael Lallo reports.
CATHERINE Deveny is sitting on a couch out the front of her house, her bare feet up on a stool. It’s hot and windy, and her red cotton dress is billowing around her ears. After her fourth inadvertent Marilyn Monroe impersonation, she yanks it down and tucks it between her legs. Then she likens herself to a prostitute as she sets about biting the hand that feeds her.
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Catherine Deveny Melbourne Icon
From Readings.com.au
By Jo Case
Catherine Deveny, like her Age colleague Michael Leunig, is a Melbourne icon, loved (and sometimes loathed) for consistently calling it as she sees it in her columns on television and on the opinion pages. Jo Case talked to her about her new collection of her best writing over the past year or so, Say When.