Britney Spears has continued to perform around the world and record albums even while under a strict conservatorship.
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The case of Britney Spears, who is trying to end her father’s conservatorship, illustrates why the legal arrangement is rife for abuse.
Here, where the Black Lives Matter movement has brought focus to First Nations people dying in custody, media attention has been episodic and too often absent.
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George Floyd’s death and the US Black Lives Matter movement sparked extensive media attention. Why aren’t Australian Indigenous deaths in custody getting the same amount of media coverage?
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The leading voice of the UK centrist left has announced that it shall be cutting its Saturday supplements in a bid to cut costs.
Getting the right information during the pandemic has been a matter of life and death.
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A survey of 1,268 people has found that the BBC is popular across all age groups. But all media needs to pay more attention to devolved and local news.
The Daily Herald’s front page for VE Day: 80% of the UK public read a newspaper during the war.
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Britain’s newspaper’s reported some wild scenes as the nation celebrated, but none wilder than in the Daily Mirror’s cartoon strip.
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Strengthening the language on climate change can help, but journalists should cover its inspiring solutions, too.
The i newspaper is one of the paper from the Johnston Press stable that has recently been in play.
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There is still value in newsprint, but newspaper owners need to invest in their communities or face extinction.
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Despite their derision, media outlets such as the Canary and Breitbart, still source much of their information from the mainstream press.
The advent of the internet has changed how politics and the media influence each other - and not always in a good way.
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Guardian Australia’s Katharine Murphy and former MP David Feeney on the digital disruption of media and politics
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Today on the podcast we're talking filter bubbles, fake news, opinion vs fact. Media Files asks two experts how the media and politics influence each other - and why that's causing concern.
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Journalism is still a popular choice for students, but the harsh realities of the media industry can can crush idealism.
Not so easy to spot on the news stand: new tabloid Guardian.
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Changing to tabloid from its distinctive Berliner format is a bold move. Our newspaper design expert hopes it will help The Guardian survive in print.
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Journalism is the first casualty as two UK newspapers with competing world views go to war.
Public interest reporting is often equated with watchdog or investigative reporting. But it can include other factual stories that serve the public interest.
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Public interest journalism exposes corruption and wrongdoers, and holds the powerful to account. But it is increasingly under threat, and we need to find ways to protect it.
The Guardian’s Facebook Files give a much-needed glimpse into how Facebook moderates content.
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Facebook should give the public more insight into how content moderation decisions are made.
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London’s media were unified against Scottish separatism in 2014. Second time around, the picture is more complicated.
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A generation of ‘new media’ sites is challenging traditional news organisations when it comes to reporting the environment.
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Research shows the vastly different ways the two newspapers approach this important issue.
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The history of newspapers has been one of adapting to prosper and now is no different.
The Guardian continues to support its print editions, despite declining readership.
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With ad blockers hurting digital, and print readership declining, The Guardian’s plans to take on the world face strong headwinds.
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The likes of Der Correspondent and Kickstarter raise the prospect of a new funding model for journalism. To some extent, we are kidding ourselves.