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Australia might become the first country in the world to submit Google and Facebook's algorithms to a public interest test.
The biggest issues of 2018, with The Guardian’s editor-in-chief Katharine Viner.
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In conversation with Andrew Dodd, Andrea Carson and Matthew Ricketson, The Guardian's editor-in-chief discusses the big stories of 2018 and what she sees as the major challenges of 2019.
Since leaving secure jobs in newsrooms, employment has been unstable for many former journalists – but job satisfaction has been surprisingly high.
Canada has a lot to learn from the U.S. about nonprofit news. Here's how nonprofit news organizations work in the United States. Spoiler alert: It's all about collaboration.
To read English-Canadian media, you would think that Québec’s anglophones are under greater threat than the rest of the country's minority language communities. Why the selective outrage?
With internet platforms and social media increase our access to direct, unedited and unfiltered media coverage. This has been used to great effect to deliberately distort our understanding of events.
The Canadian government has announced a new policy of providing financial assistance to the country's news industry. With any financial support will come a need to define who exactly is a journalist.
There’s also long been great social distance between the US national press and large swathes of the country, and Trump’s distaste for the former reflects the frustration felt by millions of Americans.
Developing breakthroughs takes time. So why rush explaining them?
Reporters who cover environment and natural resource issues are commonly threatened and harassed around the world. Some have been killed for coverage that threatens powerful interests.
Photographs can influence us -- they can inspire us to act and they can also impact the way we think about issues. The recent published photos about the migrant 'caravan' convey several stereotypes.
The Iffy Quotient measured misinformation on social media in the run-up to the recent elections. Facebook has gotten better at combating untrustworthy links, but Twitter still struggles.
Will it embolden or neuter the Arab world's autocratic regimes?
We read about and watch other people moving to the coast or country and, in doing so, sometimes we're persuaded to join the seachangers and treechangers ourselves.
When political polls are aggregated together, that can make the results misleading.
New research shows mainstream media outlets are failing to report issues of cultural diversity with enough breadth and depth.
Monitoring the spread of mis-information and dis-information during the Swedish national elections by a group of scholars and journalist could set a precedent elsewhere.
Media moguls' alleged involvement in bringing an end to Malcolm Turnbull's prime ministership raises serious questions about their influence, and media accountability.
Charging the leader of the UK Labour Party with antisemitism is a narrative that went mainstream – but it’s one that omits pertinent information and opposing views.
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Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor at LaTrobe University. Department of Communication and Media., La Trobe University
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Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, RMIT University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor Journalism & Media, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Convergent and Online Media, University of Sydney
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre For Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
