Given newspapers’ continued role as the main provider of new news every day, and the amplifying effect of social media, their potential to influence the body politic remains substantial.
Social psychology addresses many of the important questions that concern us as human beings. It’s also the subject of newspaper editorials on most days: why is there conflict between groups? How can it…
This has been cross-border journalism at its best. But for some papers it’s a chance to pursue a different agenda entirely.
The UK needs more US-style political news satire. Sadly broadcast rules are making that difficult.
Reading this week’s media coverage of the NDS hacking and piracy allegations the first thing that springs to mind is that this continues an ‘Annus Horribilis’ for the Murdoch clan which began with News…
Gina Reinhart shouldn’t ask for her portrait to come down – but King Charles III probably should have sent his back.
Campaign pits power of press against social media activism.
As he enters his tenth decade, we are still waiting for his pivot.
Twitter’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) is due to take place on Wednesday. The company values itself at US$12 billion and expects to raise up to US$1.3 billion in sales. But let’s forget about the money…
It’s hard to imagine Rupert Murdoch sitting on Twitter, isn’t it? But tweet he does and today Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his deputy Anthony Albanese tweeted back. For “tweet” and “tweeted” in that sentence…
