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The relationship between the state and media soured just months into the Kenyatta regime.
The pandemic hit media hard, but a new report shows New Zealand now has more independent news outlets than at any time in the past decade.
Does taking government money mean journalists owe the government something? A media ethics scholar examines the ethical questions about news organizations getting government help during the pandemic.
COVID-19 has accelerated the disintegration of New Zealand’s media. A state-led reconstruction strategy is the only answer.
Hundreds of jobs are at risk and the quality of news is under threat as New Zealand’s broadcasting media face closures, sales and restructuring in the biggest overhaul in a decade.
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 practice of calling attention to false stories – with actual fakers then levying the charge on their accusers – dates back to battles between progressive reformers and corporate media outlets.
Joe Ricketts abruptly shut down DNAinfo and Gothamist after his employees voted to unionize. Is what he did legal? And how could similar events be prevented in the future?
The newspaper’s new owners harken back to a tradition of labor-led media in the early part of the 20th century, which represented a bulwark against corporate power.
The most pertinent issue is how much power the federal government is prepared to allow any single media proprietor to have.
Culture secretary Karen Bradley’s decision will stall the bid, but the saga is far from over.
For Ten to be a viable business it needs to make hard decisions to cut costs and reach more viewers.
Ten Network has been placed in voluntary administration, after major shareholders refused to guarantee another loan.
The Australian media policy omelette cannot simply be unscrambled. But forward-thinking diversity rules could help prevent further concentration of media ownership.
The Conversation’s political experts react to the 2017-18 budget’s key measures in the areas of welfare, foreign aid, defence spending and more.
John McDonnell’s claim that the BBC was uncritically repeating ‘Tory lies’ this week once more raises the question of bias in the media’s political reporting. But is he right?
Media plurality is vital in a democracy. Full ownership of Sky would give the Murdoch family too much power.
With Quickflix saved but Presto on the way out, it’s hard to predict who will emerge as the winners as battle for video-on-demand viewers intensifies.
The Turnbull government is engaged in a media reform process that is all about the sideshow – not forward-thinking policy with the public interest in mind.
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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