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Crikey reminds Australia’s media it can be a little narrow minded. Crikey.com.au

Journalists, there’s more than one expert in town, and here they are

Journalists are often under deadline pressure, which is why, says Crikey’s Emily Watkins, they return again and again to the same experts. Those who give good quotes are often also pretty good at making…
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‘Mainstream’ is not a dirty word

One of our academic authors recently commented that The Conversation has become “very mainstream in what it’s publishing”. It was a loaded comment, considering people increasingly distrust “the MSM”, sometimes…
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Why you should donate to The Conversation

I’m writing to ask you to donate to The Conversation. This year your support matters more than ever. In recent weeks massive job losses at Fairfax and News Limited have thrown new light on the parlous…
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The Conversation quiz #2

Test your knowledge of the news – and fun facts – from this week’s articles on The Conversation.
Divided we fall. AAP/Reuters/The Conversation

Help us restore trust in experts

We’re keen to collaborate with more Australian media organisations to help restore some of the trust we’ve all lost.
How British newspapers covered the election of Donald Trump. Toby Melville/Reuters

How should we talk about Trump?

Lately at The Conversation we’ve been discussing how best to cover Donald Trump given the significant global ramifications of his presidency.

Fifty standout articles in The Conversation’s 2016 Yearbook

Our latest book, The Conversation Yearbook 2016: 50 standout articles from Australia’s top thinkers, is now available. In a year in which political discourse seemed untethered from reality, the articles…
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The Conversation US turns two

TCUS launched on October 21, 2014 with six editors. Today we are 12 editors and growing.

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