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Are Streaming services willing the battle ?

The streaming services winning the battle for attention, and the feature Australians want. SBS web site  Source: AAP / Jenny Kane/AP It's not subscription platforms like Netflix that Australians are spending the most time watching, according to a new report, which also revealed they want a feature that would make finding content easier. Australians are steadily reducing streaming services subscriptions amid cost of living pressures, a new report has [...]

2023-11-12T18:25:58+10:302023-11-12|Digital Media, Solial Media|
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Digital News Report

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 [...]

2023-10-24T15:36:26+10:302023-10-24|Digital Media, Public Media, Solial Media|
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Freedom of press barons

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 [...]

2023-09-24T13:54:57+09:302023-09-24|Public Media|
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ABC Emergency Services

ABC Press Release  September 18,2023 The ABC is helping prepare communities for an increase in fire and weather activity during the spring and summer months with an emergency information campaign across radio, online and social media. The campaign coincides with Red Cross Emergency Ready Week which runs from 18 – 24 September. With above average temperatures forecast in the coming months, the ABC campaign provides important information on how [...]

2023-09-20T10:22:50+09:302023-09-20|About the ABC|
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ABC chased its fountain of youth…

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 [...]

2023-07-28T17:50:51+09:302023-07-25|About the ABC, Public Media|
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Dark Day for US Public Media

US public media faces funding axe National Public Radio |Washington DC |  5th July 2023 | Ahmed_Janabi  The House’s decision to scrap the funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by 2026 will have a drastic impact on the services and financial viability of public service media in the US. Public media funding in the US has been thrown into doubt after the House Appropriations Education Subcommittee decided to stop [...]

2023-07-31T11:36:53+09:302023-07-25|Uncategorized|
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Labor to consider ways to protect ABC and SBS from future funding threats

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 [...]

2023-07-30T13:03:42+09:302023-07-24|About the ABC, Public Media|
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ABC Partners with Universities

ABC Press Release  July 20, 2023  In the face of declining local media coverage in regional and rural Australia, the ABC will partner with researchers at Deakin and Griffith universities to look at innovative ways in which the public broadcaster can support local news sustainability. The three-year Australian Research Council project will determine how the ABC can best develop partnerships and collaborations with regional news outlets to support public [...]

2023-07-31T11:44:27+09:302023-07-20|Uncategorized|
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