In just 10 years, The Conversation has garnered the second biggest global audience reach of any Australian media company, behind only News Corporation.
There is a deep and widening gulf in trust and communications between the agencies and the media that has clearly boiled over in ways that damage both institutions.
If what you’re reading seems too good to be true, it just might be.
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Porter claims even though he wasn’t named in the ABC article, he was easily identifiable to many Australians. For the ABC, the defences to defamation are notoriously difficult to establish.
Children watching an old Hindi film at a video centre in Tamale in Ghana in 2016.
Katie Young
At the end of the 1925 movie ‘Red Kimono,’ the protagonist, Gabrielle Darley, throws away her garment and moves on to a better life. Real life is more complicated.
Portrait of Betty and Willis Coles by William Bullard from about 1902.
Courtesy of Frank Morrill, Clark University and the Worcester Art Museum
The media treated the rape allegation against Porter as a political story and watched it play out in the political process — without identifying the attorney-general.
We looked at newspaper coverage over 20 years and found 78% of articles portrayed domestic violence as isolated incidents in relationships, rather than a systemic issue.
Daft Punk’s anonymity was really a stroke of genius.
Facebook blocked Australians from sharing news stories, escalating a fight with the government over whether powerful tech companies should have to pay news organizations for content.
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The battle between media companies and foreign governments over who controls the news dates back some 150 years, to when European and US wire services dictated the world’s headlines.