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In such a highly concentrated media market as Australia, the partisanship of big news brands has become the norm.
Australia’s population is more diverse than ever. But new research confirms Australia’s journalist workforce remains overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic and white.
Deficit discourse is created, in part, by a mainstream media and screen culture that is overwhelmingly white and doesn’t reflect the cultural diversity of its population.
Australia’s regional news outlets are dying a not-so-slow death, and COVID-19 has accelerated their decline.
British TV is at its best when representing the modern reality of the country.
A large body of research shows the lack of diversity in the UK news media.
The news Foxtel received a speedy funding boost as the ABC faces another round of damaging cost cuts will raise eyebrows. And questions about how we spend taxpayers’ money.
We are being told we must choose between free speech or bullying. These aren’t the real options.
Most of the community radio stations operate on a survivalist level, and should be seen as struggling small, medium and micro enterprises.
From the beginning, National Public Radio vowed that it would speak with ‘many voices.’
New research shows less than 10% of Australia’s artistic directors come from culturally diverse backgrounds – but many didn’t want the research to be done at all.
As we face a growing tide of unregulated hate speech, the media is crucial in normalising diversity. Yet progress here has been slow. Even the ABC has failed to meet some of its own targets for hiring a diversity of employees.
Writing Apu out of The Simpsons is a simplistic solution to the issue of diversity in media. Instead, we need to support programming created by people of colour.
Is the Australian media industry willing to come together to fight against global streaming media companies, or will Australian media continue to battle each other?
Keating said that for more than half a century, Nine had never done other than display “the opportunism and ethics of an alley cat.”
It’s not just how characters look. How they talk and the role they play have a profound impact on kids, who are quick to categorize characters as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ based on superficial qualities.
New research shows that Australians from diverse backgrounds are turning away from traditional media and heading online, a trend that has great significance for media companies.
The last-minute bargaining on media reforms are a minimalistic band-aid response that will do nothing to prevent further concentration of Australia’s media landscape.
Under the government’s new rules, a company will be able to have TV, radio and print outlets in the same market.
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Communications, University of Oregon
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Senior Lecturer, Co-Director Research Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University
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Instructor, DePaul University
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Former Honorary Research Associate, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Social Inquiry Program, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
