In a time of slippery weasel words and ‘alternative facts’, we are delighted to see the return of the ABC fact-checking unit in collaboration with RMIT.
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A new database that shows the use of gendered words in major Australian newspapers tells us much about whose voices are being heard.
How do the media management strategies devised in haste 15 years ago affect how asylum seekers are portrayed today?
Anti-Chinese hostility, channelled and fanned by the mainstream media, may fuel negative sentiments toward Australia on the part of Chinese migrants.
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.
The decision to refuse the ARC and academic researchers a right of reply appears to be a straightforward breach of the News Corp Australia code of conduct.
A generation on from revelations about the lack of diversity in the Australian media at the dawn of the digital era, what is pushing this concern now? And what’s changed since then?
The internet and social media have expanded the potential for more enduring forms of non-judicial punishment by way of continued denigration, humiliation and abuse.
An ACMA investigation of Andrew Bolt raises questions of fair and accurate reporting, the clash over facts, fair comment and the right of readers and viewers to be fully informed.
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.
A key feature of the way this election has been covered has been the symbiosis between tradition media and social media.
The ABC’s new chief, who took over last week, has identified improving diversity at the broadcaster as a top priority. This is long overdue - the BBC has already tackled the issue from the top down.
Mark Scott will hand to Michelle Guthrie a much-transformed ABC – one that does the same things in very new ways.
Debate over ‘discovery’ of Australia is alive and well – in the mind of one Sydney newspaper editor.
With depressing regularity I return to this column to talk about cuts to precious journalism capacity in Australia, usually at Fairfax. This week it’s the equivalent of 120 editorial positions consigned…
If the word “reform” implies genuine public benefit, then real reform has been in short supply for all of the 106 years of electronic media regulation in Australia.
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”.
Mitch Fifield has announced a shake-up of Australia’s media ownership laws. What rules are being scrapped? And what effect might their axing have on Australia’s media sector?
The fact that Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has got a package of changes to Australia’s media laws this far is remarkable considering the ill-fated recent history of attempts at media reform.
ABC managing director Mark Scott’s recent speech to the National Press Club today had the quietly confident tone of a CEO who knows he’s leaving his organisation in broadly better shape than he found it…
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJII, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor (Communication), Deakin University
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Director, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
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Professor, Journalism, RMIT University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Communication, University of Canberra
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Postdoctoral Fellow, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney