News
One of South Australia’s oldest country newspapers closed its doors today as a result of the coronavirus crisis, with News Corp also deciding to suspend printing of its Messenger newspaper titles in Adelaide.
Opinion
Unless the community and government take action, Australia’s stories will increasingly be told by fewer and fewer media voices.
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Axing the celebrated wire service narrows the scope of quality, public-interest reporting, argues Alexandra Wake.
The Australian media landscape has been rocked by confirmation the national newswire agency Australian Associated Press will be shut down at the end of June after its owners decided it was “no longer sustainable”.
The Press Council has ruled that a Women’s Day article was “blatantly misleading”, but also said people who buy gossip mags for entertainment don’t necessarily expect the stories to be strictly true. It’s a bizarre finding given the reality of defamation laws, argues Andrew Dodd.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw has admitted raids on journalists could have been handled better.
