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More Australians are paying for online and print news, with interest in local people and events on the rise, according to a new study.
More Australians are paying for online and print news, with interest in local people and events on the rise, according to a new study.
Murdoch media bats for the Coalition and both journalism and democracy are the poorer for it, argues Denis Muller.
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Two former senior editors arrested in a Hong Kong police crackdown on a pro-democracy media organisation have been charged with sedition-related offences, national security authorities say.
A Senate inquiry into media diversity ended with partisan findings and the Coalition and Labor refusing to back a judicial probe. Andrew Podger says there are other ways to address genuine problems with Australian media.
A Senate inquiry has called for a royal commission-like probe into the the concentration of media ownership in Australia and whether a new independent press regulator is needed – but the committee’s Liberal MP deputy chair has branded it a “shameless political stunt”.
Weekend reports of border closures sent the state into panic – but, Tom Richardson writes, this was a media strategy meltdown the Government was warned about.