Opinion
Axing the celebrated wire service narrows the scope of quality, public-interest reporting, argues Alexandra Wake.
News
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”.
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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.
A woman who won a long-running defamation case against Channel Seven over a Today Tonight episode that depicted her as a welfare cheat has been awarded $280,000 in damages.
The BBC will axe 450 jobs from its news division in a cost-saving plan that will result in cuts at the World Service and its 5Live radio station and in fewer reports being made by analysis show Newsnight.
A court has found that former Today Tonight reporter turned SA-BEST MP Frank Pangallo behaved in an “egregious”, “aggressive” and “intimidatory” fashion when he confronted a used car salesman in 2012 – but a defamation claim over the resulting TV story has been dismissed.
