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Enhancing Australia’s media ties across the Indo-Pacific

The Albanese Government’s new Indo-Pacific Broadcasting Strategy will increase access to trusted and reliable news, deliver quality content, and foster engagement across the region. Labor...

How did the media perform on the Voice referendum? Let’s talk about truth-telling and impartiality

The rules by which politics are conducted have changed dramatically, especially since the rise of Trumpism. Yet the professional mass media continue to cover politics...

Journalists reporting on the Voice to Parliament do voters a disservice with ‘he said, she said’ approach

Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne For much of the past two decades, polarisation and hyper-partisanship have weakened Western democracies, most notably in the United...

Muck Rack now covers over 600,000 media outlets through AI

Muck Rack, the public relations management (PRM) platform that helps connect organisations with the right journalists has expanded its global media monitoring capabilities to include...

Australia’s media improve on diversity – but there’s still a long way to go

Sora Park, University of Canberra; Jee Young Lee, University of Canberra, and Kieran McGuinness, University of Canberra Australian media have been widely criticised for not...

Media watchdog finds Channel 7 liable for breaching captioning rules

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found Channel Seven Sydney Pty Ltd and Channel Seven Brisbane Pty Ltd in breach of the captioning...

Meta warns of news content removal if new law passes

Meta said it would consider news content removal from its platform if the US passed laws mandating tech companies to pay news publishers....

3ZZZ breaches broadcasting rules in Ukraine coverage – ACMA

The communications watchdog has found Melbourne-based station 3ZZZ in violation of community broadcasting rules in its coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to an...

Albanese govt takes action to secure ABC funding after $526M cut

After the Coalition slashed $526 million from the ABC funding, the Albanese government is looking into ways to safeguard the future financial viability of the...

ACMA to hold consultation on news measurement framework

The communications watchdog will be holding a consultation on a ‘news measurement framework’ for media diversity and localism in Australia. The consultation paper to be...

Nine avoids strike; Journalists agree to accept pay deal

Publishing behemoth Nine has avoided a threatened strike after journalists at some of Australia’s largest newspapers chose to accept a revised compensation offer. Union members...

Journos at Australia’s largest newspapers to vote on strike

Journalists at several of Australia’s largest newspapers are getting ready to vote on whether to walk off their jobs over a protracted pay dispute at...

Murdoch’s News Corporation hits record $A1.1 billion profits

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has almost doubled its profits in 2021/22 to a record $A1.1 billion ($US760 million ). The US-listed company owns News Corp...

Neighbours fans brave the cold to bid Ramsay Street goodbye

Fans of Australian soap opera Neighbours have braved the Melbourne cold to watch its finale at Federation Square. Riya Patel and Josephine Crawford arrived two...

Supporters call to block Australian WikiLeaks founder’s extradition

Supporters of Julian Assange have written to new US ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy calling for the release of the WikiLeaks founder. Advocates for the...

Australia ranks 5th in online news subscription amid consumption decline

Australia ranked 5th in the number of online news subscribers globally, according to Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Digital News Report 2022. Australia...

Study reveals media ‘partially stoked bad COVID-19 info’

A study found exaggerated media reporting during the early months of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout ‘stoked’ the global spread of rumors about supposed adverse effects....