University of Canberra Digital News Report 2023 Description This report is part of a long-running international survey coordinated by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, an international research centre in the comparative study of journalism based at Oxford University. The report delivers comparative data on media usage in 46 countries and across 6 continents. There is good news for the industry this year. The number of people paying [...]
PEARLS AND IRRITATIONS -John Menadue's Public Policy Journal Geoff Davis September 23, 2023 The ‘disinformation’ (read: lies and bullshit) being propagated about the indigenous Voice to Parliament by the Murdoch media, among others, harms our society. It promotes division, celebrates and cultivates ignorance and bigotry, oppresses a minority and diminishes us all. Why do we tolerate such behaviour? Such News Corp behaviour has become normal. Any person or any [...]
Sydney Morning Herald Calum Jaspan | July 24, 2023 The ABC’s quest to woo younger audiences is being hamstrung by its stagnant budget and a structural shift towards streaming that threatens to undermine the public broadcaster’s ability to compete with the likes of Netflix. The ABC launched its new five-year plan last month, as it looks to address the key issue facing almost all traditional media companies: reaching a [...]
The Guardian | Amanda Meade | July 20, 2023 Labor to consider ways to protect ABC and SBS from future funding threats Michelle Rowland says review into security of national broadcasters will consider options to support A review into the security of ABC and SBS funding will examine ways to protect the public broadcasters from future threats of privatisation and arbitrary funding cuts, the communications minister Michelle Rowland [...]
The ABC doesn’t need News Corp — News Corp needs the ABC Christopher Warren|May 24, 2023 Everything News Corp touches, it breaks. Right now it’s broken the ABC, cowing the public broadcaster into a “don’t hit me” defensive crouch that cedes all power to the bad faith of its corporate enemy. As ever at the ABC, change starts with a staff revolt, like this week’s walkout over racism. It’s a [...]
ABC to benefit from demise of right wing think tanks? Marcus Clay |October 03, 2022 The commercial world deserts the IPA and other neoliberal "think tanks" John Roskam, recently resigned director of the IPA, has lamented this week that: "Not one of the ASX 100 companies supports the IPA". For an organisation that was created by business, for business, that’s bad news indeed. The IPA (Institute of Public Affairs) has [...]
