Politicians can make it hard to hold them to their promises. Here are some of the tactics they use.
- Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
Another election brings another round of promises from politicians trying to win votes, but how many did the last government keep? It’s likely more than you think.
The majority of country press audiences prefer to read their local paper in print than online. In fact, many said they would stop reading their papers if they went digital only.
Small newspapers across Australia are closing or going digital-only in the economic fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic. This is what we need to do to save them.
Before media reform becomes a runaway train, we need to return to the drawing board and rethink the maps that define and guide broadcasters on reporting news for “local areas”.
Some of the bush tales about regional news that are circulating in the ongoing debate about media reform need to be debunked.
After residents in the NSW coastal town of Kiama woke to the sound of emergency sirens earlier this week, chances are they grabbed a copy of the local newspaper, the Independent, to find out about the…
Australia’s “human headline” Derryn Hinch built his fame in radio and television by - often controversially - “naming and shaming” those he subjected to the media blowtorch. But today, Hinch, as do many…
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