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A new survey reveals that while most young Australians get news from online sources, they lack the skills to distinguish fake news.
New research shows that Australians from diverse backgrounds are turning away from traditional media and heading online, a trend that has great significance for media companies.
Wikipedia has earned our trust. Now its founder proposes an innovative assault on fake news with Wikitribune.
As a second independence referendum beckons, a counterweight to the unionist-leaning press is hugely important to the Yes side.
Researchers have found that today's students, despite being 'digital natives,' have a hard time distinguishing what is real and what is fake online. Metaliteracy might provide the answers.
Trump has given extremists a high-profile stage, but in the process exposed them to the disinfecting sunlight.
Threats to humiliate an intimate partner by sharing explicit photos or video is an old problem with a new digital twist, a new study finds.
China is used to media being kept on a tight leash, but the party's latest swoop has an ominous new zeal about it.
Fibbers beware: experts have developed a new digital lie detector.
Social networking, smartphones, ad blockers, oh my. A global survey of 50,000 news consumers assessed the ways we get our news in 2016.
The rise on live streaming of television programs is breaking down the protected geographical barriers on what you can watch, and the regional broadcasters are not happy.
Netflix's recent ban on proxies, unblockers and virtual private networks (VPNs) is unlikely to provide a long-term cure to content providers’ chronic headaches.
The move that will save Twitter – and improve public debate worldwide – is much more than adding 9,860 characters.
Will the new version of Reddit appeal in the same way as the original?
Mass media is on its way out, and the pursuit and influence of niche audiences has fundamentally reshaped everything from the music industry to publishing. Now it's reshaping television.
The 2015 Reuters institute digital news report has just been published. It contains, according to Matthew Ingram in Fortune magazine, mostly bad news for traditional, mainstream media – confirming what…
If confidential sources can still be exposed by the government's new data retention legislation, why risk leaking anything to the media?
Online and social media’s capacity to enable anyone to communicate their ideas and views is much celebrated. So why do so many people feel nervous about getting involved with online debate? Too often…
Last week’s announcement that Australia’s oldest and most respected lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) weekly newspaper, Sydney Star Observer (SSO), will change to a monthly print…
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