It may be accepted wisdom that Australians are disengaged from politics, but there are plenty of other indicators to suggest otherwise.
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Cleo has been part of Australia’s media landscape for more than 40 years. We look back on the magazine that “wrote about sex as if we invented it” and its unique brand of pop culture commentary.
Thousands are taking to the Internet to petition for the freedom of convicted murderer Steven Avery.
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Joe Saltzman, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
The movie ‘Spotlight’ might depict heroic journalists in action, but increasingly, the public views reporters with suspicion – primed by the often harsh portrayal of the press in popular culture.
More than 11 million people tuned in to the primetime special.
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If journalism is supposed to be a force for truth, accountability and enlightenment in the political process, then it appears to be failing on the biggest of stages.
French papers have a range of views on COP21, but even more views about terrorism.
Cathy Alexander
France was prepared to be on the world stage in late 2015. But not like this. As the Paris climate summit reached its halfway mark on Saturday, the local media was still largely preoccupied with the terrorist…
How much screen time should kids get?
Yan Chi Vinci Chow
Research shows that preschool children take characters from popular television shows and movies and blend them together to create complex oral stories.
To simply say journalists should report in equal amounts on such deaths, regardless of where they occurred, may be nice from a normative perspective. But is it actually realistic?
Media reports would have us believing young people are using synthetic products in droves.
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The hyperbole used to describe the dangers of new drugs can be counterproductive. Rather than containing their spread, the media can act as advertisers for emerging substances.
Media savvy researchers see television as a particularly useful way to reach new audiences.
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A former dean of Sydney University’s Faculty of Medicine, where I work, once appointed me to a role where I was to try and increase the news media profile of our staff’s research and to encourage them…
Gough Whitlam speaks on the steps of parliament on November 11, 1975, surrounded by radio reporters’ microphones.
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The way in which Bob Wilesmith’s footage has come to dominate Australians’ recollection of The Dismissal is a story of prescience, luck and the limitations of the TV news technology of the day.
ESPN’s corporate leadership decided to shutter Grantland four years after the boutique site launched.
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Despite the website’s hype, Grantland was never anything more than window dressing for ESPN’s brand.
The secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Michael Thawley, wants the public service to open its doors to the outside world.
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Michael Thawley, surprised at finding so many closed doors – requiring swipe cards – when he became secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, has now opened most of the internal ones…
Research into the way emotions spread through online social networks shows that happiness is contagious.
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Research shows that when people share happy news on social media, they make their friends - and extended social network - happy too. Picking up on this trend is a new swathe of “good news” websites.
The original recommendations were made with TV shows and films in mind.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has called its guideline of two hours per day of screen time outdated. So what about the decades of research that led to the original recommendation?