With social media blurring the line between public and private more than ever, journalists need to think about how, and to what effect, they use advocacy hashtags in their messages.
- Adjunct professor, Queensland University of Technology
To simply say journalists should report in equal amounts on such deaths, regardless of where they occurred, may be nice from a normative perspective. But is it actually realistic?
Stung by industry criticism, Australian journalism schools have undertaken the largest study of its kind to find out what their students really think.
In a decision that has stunned many observers, Leigh Sales, anchor of the ABC’s prime news and current affairs program 7.30, will not host Saturday night’s election panel on the public broadcaster. And…
I don’t know about you, but almost a week out from the election, I’ve become quite bored with it all. It had all begun promisingly, with a newly reinstated Prime Minister polling surprisingly well among…
Horrifying photographs and videos emerged yesterday from what appears to have been a chemical attack on thousands of civilians in Syria. It is still unclear who committed the atrocity, with both Syrian…
Finally, Australia is in the news internationally about a serious event - our federal election campaign. Normally, the land down under seems to make the global news only in relation to the quirks of living…
So the Daily Telegraph is at it again today, featuring Kevin Rudd, Anthony Albanese and Craig Thomson in German World War 2 uniforms, playing the main characters of the popular 1960s TV show Hogan’s Heroes…
The uproar in some circles over the Daily Telegraph’s front page, telling voters in no uncertain terms to dump the Rudd government, has focused attention once more on the issue of objectivity in journalism…
Women now outnumber men in the Australian media, but they are typically younger, earn less and have less powerful positions than male colleagues. A new national survey shows women now make up 55.5% of…
Most Australian journalists describe themselves as left-wing, yet amongst those who wield the real power in the country’s newsrooms, the Coalition holds a winning lead. But while the media’s political…
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