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Facebook recently removed Australian news stories from its site. If Ottawa follows Australia’s lead, Facebook might do the same in Canada.
There have been regular calls and inquiries into media ownership in Australia. But despite the howls of outrage, there has bene little political appetite to do anything about it.
Research shows Google News results often prioritise mainstream media over smaller news businesses. It’s a double-edged sword. While local outlets suffer, it’s actually better for readers.
The Public Interest Journalism Initiative is proposing a new scheme that would allow news media organisations to claim tax refunds for producing ‘core news’ content. This is how it would work.
Facebook and Google’s publicity campaigns against Australia’s new media regulations show they’re worried other countries will follow suit.
The national broadcaster has announced more cuts to its services, including 250 job losses and the axing of the major 7:45am news bulletin. It is the latest in a long line of blows to the ABC.
The media have mad a significant contribution to the current crisis of democracy - now, they must play a vital role in any democratic revival.
Research by the UTS Centre for Media Transition suggests it will be hard for digital-only local newspapers to match what local print editions gave their communities.
News Corp’s announcement it will stop printing 100 suburban and community newspapers is another blow for regional Australia and the the media landscape more broadly.
New research reveals Australians are feeling overwhelmed and anxious about coronavirus news, with younger people particularly worried about its effects.
The ways the media cover health and medical issues can have a direct impact on people’s behaviour. New research shows the quality of health reporting declined as media companies contracted.
Now more than ever, the media should inform, not inflame.
The usual pretence that right-wing commentators are on the side of their audience falls away in times of crisis. They are on the side of business - particularly their own.
It is the stories that are entertaining rather than informative that are most likely to add to the panic, and media outlets need to be careful about what they publish.
Given the summer we have had, media acquiescence in climate change denial, and failure to follow the weight of scientific evidence, looks like culpability.
As he leaves to take up his new post as Ambassador to the United States, Arthur Sinodinos warns that the Australian media landscape is becoming increasingly partisan.
Of all the news stories examined in a snapshot study, only 11% included the views or experiences of young people. And that inclusion was usually via adults.
Media Files: Washington Post weather editor Jason Samenow on how weather coverage is evolving – and building audience growth
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The Washington Post's weather editor explains how digital media changed the way we connect to the weather, and why it's wrong for weather editors to leave climate change out of the discussion.
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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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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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