The Men Who Killed the News is at once a cry of indignation at the media’s abuse of power and an attempt to chart a future for journalism.
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Research shows Google News results often prioritise mainstream media over smaller news businesses. It’s a double-edged sword. While local outlets suffer, it’s actually better for readers.
While the Liberal party reaped mega dollars at Nine’s Monday fundraiser, Nine and its chief executive faced a backlash from staff at the company’s recently acquired former Fairfax newspapers.
A new form of journalism, dubbed “access journalism” is creeping into the media, and its reliance on allegations and lack of evidence poses a serious threat.
What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
Eric Beecher of Private Media, Stephen Mayne of the Mayne Report and ABC finance presenter Alan Kohler join Andrew Dodd and Andrea Carson to discuss what the Nine Fairfax merger means for quality journalism.
Australian media ownership is already among the most concentrated in the world, but if the competition regulator approves the Nine-Fairfax deal, expect the race for survival to produce more mergers.
The Age Charter of Editorial Independence – the first document of its type in Australia – first emerged in 1988. It was defended time and again over the following three decades.
Two companies with very different histories and cultures will now be forced to work together in search of efficiencies and revenue in a brutal media landscape.
Keating said that for more than half a century, Nine had never done other than display “the opportunism and ethics of an alley cat.”
Australian Twitter users largely ignored news from Syria, North Korea and other trouble spots in June, focussing instead on domestic politics.
News Corp on the right, Fairfax on the left. This division has a long history in Australia, to the detriment of quality journalism and public debate.
The Schapelle Corby media circus wasn’t reflected in Twitter stats and calls to boycott Fairfax during the staff strike show limited impact on this social media platform as well.
While digital revenue streams may be delivering, there’s still a strong reliance on print for revenue and research shows readers engage more with print.
Explaining Fairfax’s struggles, CEO Greg Hywood blamed the ABC for distorting the market - but the national broadcaster actually drives traffic to its commercial competitors.
Fairfax’s plans to reduce arts coverage as part of 125 jobs to go put Australia’s cultural enterprise in jeopardy.
The private equity consortium bidding for Fairfax has experience in media - and it’s not all bad.
Although few pay for news in Australia, The New York Times’ is pushing into the country’s fracturing newspaper market.
Was shadow minister for communications Michelle Rowland right when she said Australia’s level of media ownership concentration is one of the highest in the world?
Media companies say their results are an indicator of a transformation taking place from traditional business to newer profitable digital platforms, but it seems the proof is still missing.
Firms that are trying to branch out into new technology, while at the same time retaining traditional business, are facing similar problems to startups.
Top contributors
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor Journalism & Media, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Co-Director Research Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor - Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of New South Wales., UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Journalism, RMIT University
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Associate Dean Digital and Innovation, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Journalism, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Convergent and Online Media, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
