Before media reform becomes a runaway train, we need to return to the drawing board and rethink the maps that define and guide broadcasters on reporting news for “local areas”.
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Mitch Fifield has announced a shake-up of Australia’s media ownership laws. What rules are being scrapped? And what effect might their axing have on Australia’s media sector?
The sale of APN’s regional newspaper arm could see Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp buy back the papers it sold in the ‘80s.
As recently as 10 years ago, Mexico had a press freedom index on par with the United States. How did everything fall apart so quickly?
Illegal downloads proliferate during awards season. Are film leaks simply the cost of doing business?
My first few days at The Independent in 2004 didn’t go so well. I quit after two weeks. Fortunately I changed my mind, stuck around, and over the subsequent five years worked there in a variety of editorial…
In a 2013 Monthly essay Eric Beecher warned of a looming “civic catastrophe” for Australia if the decline of newspapers continued as it had been in the preceding years. The Australian’s report on a Fairfax…
With social media blurring the line between public and private more than ever, journalists need to think about how, and to what effect, they use advocacy hashtags in their messages.
Until a public interest exemption is included in Section 35P, the offence will continue to impact press freedom and have a chilling effect on media organisations’ ability to report on ASIO’s activities.
We may believe that Australians are disengaged from the political process, but that may be because we’re not looking in the right places.
Cleo has been part of Australia’s media landscape for more than 40 years. We look back on the magazine that “wrote about sex as if we invented it” and its unique brand of pop culture commentary.
A new paper details how armchair activists – put together – can be a force.
Images taken from young people’s Facebook are being used by the media with impunity.
A review of some of the top arts and culture stories from the past year.
A post-network era looms. What does this mean for the way we watch – and pay for – television shows?
The movie ‘Spotlight’ might depict heroic journalists in action, but increasingly, the public views reporters with suspicion – primed by the often harsh portrayal of the press in popular culture.
The most-tweeted live television event was a hit with black audiences, who also noticed a shift in the ads that aired.
If journalism is supposed to be a force for truth, accountability and enlightenment in the political process, then it appears to be failing on the biggest of stages.
France was prepared to be on the world stage in late 2015. But not like this. As the Paris climate summit reached its halfway mark on Saturday, the local media was still largely preoccupied with the terrorist…
Research shows that preschool children take characters from popular television shows and movies and blend them together to create complex oral stories.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor Journalism & Media, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Convergent and Online Media, University of Sydney
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Rodney Tiffen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Chair Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
