The Listen Loudly, Act Strongly report lays out systemic racism at the national broadcaster. In the face of external attack, the ABC needs to stand up for its culturally diverse staff.
- Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
In a time when media companies are more cash-strapped than ever, the threat of defamation action has a chilling effect on the stories that get told.
The chief executive’s departure completes the cleanout of the top levels of an organisation besieged by cultural problems.
Appointing a new managing director offers the opportunity to reset the organisation’s editorial culture by facing down the relentless attacks on its journalists from right-wing political interests.
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.
If the ABC is serious about strengthening its news service, it must separate the roles of managing director and editor-in-chief.
The chairman resigns, but allegations of sexual misconduct and a culture that condoned it continue to haunt the media company.
Where do free speech rights end and professional journalistic obligations begin? For journalists in the public eye, it can be hard to tell.
The judge in the high-profile defamation case described the saga as an “omnishambles” - and the media are included in that.
Writers festivals navigate the fraught frontier between social media’s echo chambers of outrage and the civilised public debate of the public square. What’s the way forward in this heated atmosphere?
At a vulnerable time for the public broadcaster, Williams has made a promising start by saying management must take staff concerns seriously.
The broadcaster’s sacking over a social media post suggests a state of mind induced by two decades of cumulative intimidation, hostility, board-stacking and financial punishment.
Hundreds of Australian journalists signed an open letter to news organisations calling for better coverage of the war. It calls their impartiality into question.
How can we reconcile our present attitudes and knowledge with historical realities – and how resistant our is media to being seduced by powerful interests?
Without independent evidence, the ABC is right not to adopt for itself terms such as ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid’, but equally it is right to report others making such allegations.
More than 1,000 literary figures so far have signed an open letter protesting the cancellation of an award ceremony to honour Palestinian writer Adania Shibli.
The “he said/she said” reporting of yesteryear no longer serves a democratic purpose. Media must do better at calling out lies and misinformation.
Buttrose’s tenure as chair was tainted by being a Morrison government ‘captain’s pick’, but she nonetheless defended the ABC against tat government’s predations.
Media Monsters deserves to stand among the giants of academic research and authorship on Australian media and political history.
The national broadcaster’s management has finally condemned the racist abuse directed at their high-profile presenter and apologised too him, but it has come far too late.
Maintaining impartiality does not require the media to publish nonsense, and certainly does not require them to publish nonsense without drawing attention to the facts or contrary evidence.
Calls have erupted to cancel two writers from Adelaide Writers’ Week – including from South Australia’s Opposition leader. Why? And are they justified? Denis Muller weighs the evidence.
News Corps announcement that it would cut 1 in 20 jobs is bad news for journalism, but does not necessarily mean the end of the company’s papers.
A new book argues that very rarely it is ethically justifiable to deceive to get a story. But mostly it’s a dangerous and harmful practice that adds to the public’s mistrust of the media.
In covering the final days of the Victorian election, mainstream media fell victim to wanting the most dramatic outcome – no matter how weak the evidence for it may have been.
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