The future of news is the future of democracy

If media organisations don’t crack the secret to making money from serious news, local reportage will all but disappear. The answer, argues Malcolm King, lies in re-establishing trust.

Sweetness and light as Trump meets Turnbull

A bad phone call? No, it’s just fake news.

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"Fake news" trumps "halal snack pack" for word of the year

A term made famous by Donald Trump through the marathon US election has filtered into the Australian vernacular, with “fake news” voted the Macquarie Dictionary word of 2016.

"Fake news": Trump compares intelligence agencies to Nazis

US president-elect Donald Trump has angrily denounced unsubstantiated claims he had been caught in a compromising position in Russia and attacked US intelligence agencies over the leak of the information.

"Fake news" is political cancer: can it be cured?

Fake news is eroding the fragile pillars of democracy but stopping it will be no easy task, writes Vincent O’Donnell.