Under the Sullivan standard, a public official has to prove that there was ‘actual malice’ in defamation cases. That could be challenged in the Supreme Court.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Media
Displaying 181 - 200 of 1031 articles
Stories build powerful emotional attachments. We root for heroes, boo their opponents and get anxious for the fictional problem to be solved. Facts have very little to do with it.
Children don’t have to be in physical danger for disaster images to have a powerful psychological impact.
Many countries are experimenting with different forms of government support for journalism, but the question is about what works best and is sustainable.
A new law could make it harder for women to be publicly blamed for a marriage’s end.
Fact-checking risks oversimplifying and distorting Americans’ political conflicts, while not actually helping people find ways to work together productively.
A quarter of Americans don’t know how they feel about the Build Back Better Act. Focusing on Americans’ individual stories – and not just political theater – could help fuel civic engagement.
Rather than a royal commission focused on News Corporation, the best approach would be an inquiry into ways to maintain standards and better fund public interest journalism.
The way the press talks about obesity has changed over time.
Specialist reporters are important, but climate coverage can no longer be left to them. Here’s what New Zealand journalists say about why climate should be part of every newsroom and every beat.
Non-stop media coverage can invade their privacy, raise and dash their hopes, and prolong their trauma.
What happens when a Chinese #MeToo moment meets authoritarian legality?
Thousands of cases of missing and murdered Native Americans remain unsolved. A scarcity of reliable data is only part of the problem, a tribal justice scholar explains.
Images of individual refugees are rare in media, but are less likely to make viewers dehumanise them.
The police, the media and politicians have long objected Chief Keef’s ties to gang violence. But the rapper wrote the playbook for using social media to make a career out of music.
Hiding the suffering and deaths of some from public view while showing others implies that certain lives are more valuable.
Social media during the pandemic is not all doom scrolling and despair. Lighter memes have psychological benefits.
Facebook declined to negotiate a content deal with The Conversation under the Federal Government’s News Media Bargaining Code.
We need your help.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two courageous journalists who have faced repression and death by doing their work.
This is the full transcript for Don’t Call Me Resilient, episode 7: How stories about alternate worlds can help us imagine a better future.
Top contributors
-
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
-
2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
-
Associate Professor, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
-
Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
-
Rodney Tiffen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
-
Associate Professor Journalism & Media, Deakin University
-
Associate Professor in Convergent and Online Media, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Communication, Deakin University
-
Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
-
Chair Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
