The sale of Australian Community Media may signal better fortunes for regional publishing. But there are ongoing concerns about the viability of the local news business model.
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Being sold off is the best news the staff and readers of the Newcastle Herald have had for a long time.
Australia might become the first country in the world to submit Google and Facebook’s algorithms to a public interest test.
What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
Eric Beecher of Private Media, Stephen Mayne of the Mayne Report and ABC finance presenter Alan Kohler join Andrew Dodd and Andrea Carson to discuss what the Nine Fairfax merger means for quality journalism.
Fairfax Media has a long and highly successful history in investigative journalism, which may be at risk if the company merges with the Nine Network.
Australian media ownership is already among the most concentrated in the world, but if the competition regulator approves the Nine-Fairfax deal, expect the race for survival to produce more mergers.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Nicholas Klomp about the week in politics.
Two companies with very different histories and cultures will now be forced to work together in search of efficiencies and revenue in a brutal media landscape.
The merger signals the death of Fairfax, and is the most consequential change in Australian media ownership in 31 years.
The recommendations of the Senate inquiry into the future of public interest journalism are unlikely to get much traction, but the very real issues it was investigating remain unresolved.
Public interest journalism exposes corruption and wrongdoers, and holds the powerful to account. But it is increasingly under threat, and we need to find ways to protect it.
Imposing local content levies on Facebook and Google to help fund public interest journalism would take Australia towards a more European model of media regulation.
Fairfax’s plans to reduce arts coverage as part of 125 jobs to go put Australia’s cultural enterprise in jeopardy.
As the federal government looks to reform media ownership laws, the Australian media environment – in diversity and stability – is looking decidedly shaky.
There is lingering anger among journalists made redundant that expertise and experience seem to have become disposable assets in newsrooms.
Imagine, for a moment, if there were no independent journalists left to decipher PR spin.
David Leyonhjelm’s complaint over being called an ‘angry white male’ could showcase the difficulty in launching a successful action under Section 18C and undermine an argument in support of repeal.
There has been an odd silence around commercial deals struck between Australian media outlets and China’s propaganda arms.
The AFR has one of the hardest paywalls in the business, but the evidence shows this strategy could prove difficult to maintain.
Fairfax’s circulation figures fall as staff are made redundant.
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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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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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Professor of Institutional Economics, RMIT University
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Professor, Journalism, RMIT University
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Professor of Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Law, University of Sydney
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Tim Marjoribanks is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Head, La Trobe Business School; Professor of Management (Organisation Studies), La Trobe University
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Associate Dean Digital and Innovation, UNSW Business School, UNSW
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Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Griffith University