New research shows that Australians from diverse backgrounds are turning away from traditional media and heading online, a trend that has great significance for media companies.
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The last-minute bargaining on media reforms are a minimalistic band-aid response that will do nothing to prevent further concentration of Australia’s media landscape.
Under the government’s new rules, a company will be able to have TV, radio and print outlets in the same market.
There are plenty of models around the globe where governments are supporting public interest journalism at arm’s length.
The Australian media policy omelette cannot simply be unscrambled. But forward-thinking diversity rules could help prevent further concentration of media ownership.
As the federal government looks to reform media ownership laws, the Australian media environment – in diversity and stability – is looking decidedly shaky.
When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded 50 years ago, it was supposed to reflect the nation’s disparate voices.
Highly polarised media, be it on the left or the right, are a threat to democracy.
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.
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 UK establishment has never understood the northern working class – and no wonder.
If a New Zealand-focused deal between Fairfax and APN gets approval readers can expect less access to local news content.
The government wants to push the biggest overhaul of Australia’s media laws in a generation through parliament before the election.
The most-tweeted live television event was a hit with black audiences, who also noticed a shift in the ads that aired.
The Sydney Film Festival’s first ever children’s program is aimed at a new generation of consumers. And that’s to be applauded.
At an event that bills itself as ‘the place to preview the technology of tomorrow today,’ one of the fastest-growing, youngest and most tech-savvy segments of the population was largely ignored.
Its ratings are worse. So why is Fresh Off the Boat considered a success, while All-American Girl was canceled?
Did SBS chief executive Michael Ebeid score a well-timed free kick or an own goal in his attack on the ABC this week? The ABC recently secured the free-to-air television rights for the Asian Cup football…
Communications Minister and internet evangelist, Malcolm Turnbull, says media deregulation is off the agenda for now and he’s in no rush to remove the remaining media ownership rules. The reason for the…
At age 83 Australian-born tycoon Rupert Murdoch is as restless as ever. He is anxious to add the behemoth Time Warner, owner of everything from HBO to Cartoon Network to Superman, to his already bulging…
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Professor of Communication, Charles Sturt University, and Honorary Associate, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Communications, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Screen Media, Victoria University
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Instructor, DePaul University
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Associate Professor, Social Inquiry Program, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Communication, University of Technology Sydney