Thibault Camus/AP March 1, 2024 Facebook won’t keep paying Australian media outlets for their content. Are we about to get another news ban? Rob Nicholls, University of Technology Sydney The news page on Facebook will go, and with it, the flow of money to some Australian media outlets. But will the news content disappear too?
Shutterstock March 11, 2022 Merging commercial TVNZ and non-commercial RNZ won’t be easy – and time is running out Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Despite years of consultation and planning, the government’s announcement of a new ‘public media entity’ raises more questions than it answers.
STRF, STAR MAX, IPx / AP August 18, 2020 Google’s ‘open letter’ is trying to scare Australians. The company simply doesn’t want to pay for news Belinda Barnet, Swinburne University of Technology The letter is part of a campaign running across Google’s platforms, designed to gaslight Australian users. Don’t fall for it.
A stack of Southern Weekly newspapers (left) are displayed at a newsstand in Beijing, Reuters December 21, 2016 China’s new commercial media is complicating the Party’s good news narrative about Africa Xiaoling Zhang, University of Nottingham The Chinese government has an interest in presenting a positive narrative about Africa to its citizens. But the new commercial media is challenging this by prioritising sensational stories.