Leadership struggles are between ostensible allies.
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In leadership contests in particular, the media’s role is often markedly different from the competition between parties.
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara at an election campaign rally.
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Ivory Coast’s democratic election in 2015 may be another example of good news out of Africa that is ignored by the global media.
Journalists Thami Mazwai, left, and Jon Qwelane before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s special hearing on the media. They accused the white-owned press of colluding with apartheid.
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South Africa seems more divided than ever on the media, as the governing ANC revives plans for a dreaded tribunal many fear would muzzle the press.
Brian Williams will be a breaking news reporter for MSNBC.
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In the years after a traumatic news event, we’re prone to confuse things we saw on TV with what we witnessed in person.
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Why Twitter went wild for stories from David Cameron’s university days.
Ads that appear in broadsheet newspapers continue to have more appeal than their annoying, online counterparts.
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Many readers can’t tell the difference between native ads and editorial content. So will a web publisher’s credibility take a hit if it ‘goes native’ with its ad strategy?
Walter Frentz photographed Adolf Hitler strolling with German diplomat Walther Hewel in the Berchtesgaden Alps, near the dictator’s mountain home.
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The timing of Hitler’s home renovations coincided with his public makeover as a statesman and diplomat.
Peter Dutton claimed that journalists should be ‘objective reporters of the news’.
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Journalists commonly make three errors when it comes to speaking about objectivity in their craft.
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It might be thought a tad ironic that Tony Abbott, having benefited so much from the cheerleading of the News Corp tabloids in his rise to the prime ministership, should now appear to blame the “febrile…
Greenpeace is seeking to use investigative reporters to supplement its advocacy efforts.
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NGO journalists can cover issues that go underreported by cash-strapped newsrooms. But are they more likely to violate journalistic principles?
Does the media’s coverage of events such as the Sydney Lindt cafe siege deserve more scrutiny?
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In an age of radicalisation, there needs to be a radical rethinking of which stories the media tells, and how.
The more academics fear being involved in media storms, the less they feel free to explore topics they consider important.
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Public engagement of academics has increased enormously in recent decades. But this new level of engagement is producing problems and conflicts for which many academics are ill-prepared.
A Martin & Rossi ad from the 1960s.
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New research shows that the old advertising maxim ‘sex and violence sell’ may be bad for business.
American journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward were shot dead live on air, allegedly by a former colleague.
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If someone wants to create panic with a gun and a smartphone, they can. If journalists want to protect the public from disturbing images, they can’t.
A screen shot of on-air shooting video before CNN decided to fade to black.
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Mainstream media and social media go different ways on the ethical questions raised by the airing of video showing on-camera shooting of journalists.
It will be many years before life returns to normal in the Langtang valley, one of the regions worst-affected by the earthquakes in Nepal.
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Hayley Saul and Emma Waterton were in the Langtang valley in Nepal when the massive earthquake hit. Dallas Rogers spoke to Hayley and Emma about their subsequent rescue and the everyday Nepalese hero.
Arianna Huffington says HuffPo Australia will be “telling stories that focus on helping Australians live more fulfilling lives”.
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In other markets the Huffington Post doesn’t just rely on the usual suspects to write, and it’s this that will make or break it in Australia.
Left behind. Where do fans sit in the new hierarchy?
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The beautiful game has always had an ugly side to its relationship with the press, but are things now going too far?
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As the Calais crisis unfolds, social media is becoming an echo chamber for the preferences of the UK’s powerful right wing.
Why me? Bronwyn Bishop’s ‘Choppergate’ scandal has taken off for two reasons: it created an image in the public mind and it feeds into an underlying perception.
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To last a long time, issues need to provide a vivid image. The image of a woman dressed up to the nines with a bouffant hairdo riding in a helicopter is a very vivid one.