The truth is out on how the media’s reporting of the Hillsborough disaster impacted the public perception of the tragedy, but could the same be said for the British miners’ strike?
Voters know when they are being given a ‘sell job’ by politicians.
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Many voters feel completely powerless in the election process and their engagement with democracy; they talk in terms of ‘us’ and ‘them’ and of not being respected by those in power.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signs an anti-gay bill into law on February 24 2014.
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Consensual same-sex conduct is a crime in 38 African countries. The media in those countries are very much in cahoots with their rulers. But they’re getting their comeuppance from Twitter.
Chinese propaganda arms are offering tempting commercial arrangements.
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The public loses when their only choices are inaccessible, impenetrable journal articles or overhyped click-bait about science. Scientists themselves need to step up and help bridge the divide.
The cover of the ‘Weekly Standard’, February 2016.
Two recent controversial cartoons depicting people as apes have raised an important question: what are the legal and philosophical distinctions between harm and offence?
Involving the media seems to send the message of how unpleasant the AFP can make life for people who challenge the government.
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None of the politicians are talking about it, but threats to freedom of speech have emerged in three different guises in the first three weeks of the election campaign. First there was the assailing of…
The 60 Minutes employees Tara Brown and Stephen Rice arriving home from a Beirut prison.
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When Channel Nine was implicated in an illegal ‘child recovery’ operation, many would have assumed the media regulator would investigate. Yet Australian broadcasting standards are so limited there will probably be no independent inquiry at all.
Fairfax’s print newspapers take different approaches to locking up content.
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A new affiliation between Network Ten and WIN may have been forced, but it opens the way for possible future mergers.
Printer George Howe shows the first edition of the Sydney Gazette to Governor Philip Gidley King, in a feature window at the Mitchell Library.
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What science issues did Australia’s first newspaper - edited by a convict - discuss in its letter pages? The same ones we talk about today: the environment, education and health.
Quarterly circulation figures have not been good news for publishers, but Fairfax in particular has suffered.
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Fairfax’s circulation figures fall as staff are made redundant.
There’s a lot of incentive to hype scientific findings but in the end nobody wins. Overselling findings can undermine the authority of scientists as well as the credibility of the sources and ultimately deceive or even endanger the public.
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In the media, urban consolidation is often depicted as a threat to Australian suburban life. In reality, it’s a result of managed planning processes to ensure growing cities remain liveable.
People with dementia deserve higher standards of communication.
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Dementia headlines are often misleading, but it’s not only journalists who are to blame.
Workers arrange copies of the ‘Business Daily’, produced by Kenya’s Nation Media Group, the biggest newspaper publisher in East Africa.
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Namibia’s rise in the World Press Freedom rankings is stunning. The media environment in Africa, too, has improved. But media closures and the harassment of journalists are not yet things of the past.
Mark Scott has altered the ABC in profound ways.
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