Facebook’s threat to block Australians from sharing news is a premature overreaction
09/03/2020It would be far a better tactic on Facebook’s part to engage seriously with a proposal that would boost public interest journalism
The GuardianHow much should Facebook have to pay for news? We have a suggestion how to calculate it
09/03/2020The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s draft news media bargaining code has raised an interesting question: how to put a dollar value on news content?
The ConversationGoogle and Facebook should pay to use ABC and SBS content, ACCC told
08/31/2020Google and Facebook should pay to use ABC and SBS content as well as news produced by commercial media, public interest journalism advocates have told the competition watchdog.
The GuardianWhat Does the Yellow Warning Message On Google Mean?
08/26/2020Have you used Google lately and been greeted by a yellow warning saying that the way Australians search on Google is under threat? To understand why these messages are appearing, Media Files interviewed former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Professor Allan Fels, and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Initiative (PIJI), Anna Draffin
Leading health media highlights the pandemic threat to public interest journalism
08/13/2020The pandemic is exposing and exacerbating many of the determinants of poor health and inequities, such as housing insecurity, poverty, racism, incarceration, precarious employment, low levels of health literacy, human rights abuses, inequities in access to quality healthcare, and the privatisation of public goods and services, such as aged care.
The MandarinGoogle and Facebook told to pay for news content
08/01/2020Josh Frydenberg has set up a showdown with Facebook and Google over new powers that leave the tech giants facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if they don’t pay for news content used on their platforms.
The AustralianNewspaper publisher ACM may close presses in Victoria, SA and Canberra, shedding 200 jobs
07/08/2020In a statement, ACM said it was reviewing the operation of its sites in Ballarat and Wodonga in Victoria, Murray Bridge in South Australia, and Canberra in the ACT.
ABCRegional broadcasters unaware of KordaMentha report
07/06/2020Regional broadcasters say they weren't consulted for a $99,700 KordaMentha report into the state of the industry and are unsure if confidential financial information they provided for a separate report was used in its findings.
SMHRegional broadcasters unaware of KordaMentha report
07/06/2020Regional broadcasters say they weren't consulted for a $99,700 KordaMentha report into the state of the industry and are unsure if confidential financial information they provided for a separate report was used in its findings.
SMH/The AgeEmbattled regional media outlets may knock back government grants
07/02/2020Regional media companies may be forced to refuse or return government funding because of a condition preventing them from cutting the amount of journalism they provide to local communities over the next 12 months.
Brisbane TimesScott Morrison is being fancy-pants in saying there are no cuts to the ABC
06/26/2020It’s been a tough week for journalism. Also a bad month, year, decade and century. The latest bad news is cuts at the ABC, which we knew were coming. They were delayed because of the twin crises that gripped the nation this year – bushfires and COVID-19.
SMHABC job cuts: Australian public broadcaster to shed 250 staff
06/24/2020The Australian Broadcasting Corporation says it will shed 250 jobs in an effort to find savings after budget cuts by the Australian government.
BBCHow will regional and suburban media survive in a post-coronavirus world?
06/22/2020The ongoing financial woes many media organisations around the country are facing have been exacerbated by the coronavirus crisis, prompting a wide-ranging discussion about the future of journalism in Australia.
ABCRegional newspaper cuts leave locals fearing loss of community and accountability
06/18/2020But the shift to online advertising combined with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic means that local printed newspapers are under increasing financial pressure.
ABC‘It’s a real loss’: Gippsland rocked by local newspaper closures
05/31/2020For almost 150 years, The Great Southern Star and Yarram Standard delivered the news of their Gippsland communities. The papers suspended print publication in March amid the coronavirus pandemic but on Friday, Tony Giles, whose family has owned the business for decades, confirmed the worst: the papers were finished
The AgeNews Corp axes print titles, jobs as regional news media hits crisis point
05/28/2020Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has abandoned local and regional news audiences in Australia, with the announcement it will stop printing more than 100 community and regional print titles across the country.
CrikeyFears local councils, authorities won’t be held accountable as more regional reporters lose their jobs
05/28/2020Local news has long been in danger but now Australian news giant, News Corp, has announced it'll cease printing more than 100 titles and merge others. Jobs will go and media experts say so to, will accountability of local politicians and authorities.
ABCAustralian media closures spark fears important local stories will not be told
05/21/2020And with more than 150 newsrooms closing over the past 18 months in Australia, experts are concerned that many vital stories will never be told.
ABCMEAA petitions ACM to reopen regional mastheads: ‘Our regions deserve and need better’
05/19/2020The union for members of the media and arts industries has launched a petition imploring Australian Community Media (ACM) to reopen the regional and rural titles it closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
MumbrellaMore than 150 Australian newsrooms shut since January 2019 as Covid-19 deepens media crisis
05/18/2020The closure of BuzzFeed News in Australia may have grabbed the headlines last week but the digital startup is just one victim on a growing list of media casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The GuardianSky News tells talking heads they can appear for nothing or not at all
05/01/2020Despite the ongoing loss of jobs in journalism, there is support in the community for public interest journalism, especially during a crisis, according to research from the Public Interest Journalism Initiative.
The GuardianABC could see payday from big tech giants
04/21/2020Australia's competition boss has said he wants to find a way for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to be involved in new media revenue-sharing requirements being imposed on tech giants Google and Facebook, despite its model not being funded by advertising.
AFRGovernment’s $5m regional publishers grant labelled ‘wholly inadequate’ by industry union
04/06/2020The announcement that the Morrison Government would bring forward the release of $5m funding for regional and small publishers has been slammed by the industry’s union as ‘wholly inadequate’.
Mumbrella‘None of us know what the other side will look like’: COVID-19 culling newsrooms across regional Australia
04/03/2020Advocates are demanding the Federal Government provide immediate assistance to save regional Australia's shrinking commercial media, as the forced shutdown of communities continues to drive advertising sales into the ground.
ABCAs the pandemic cuts a swathe through newsrooms, communities will count the toll
04/01/2020Australians are consuming news like it’s going out of fashion. A desire for updates about the novel coronavirus, combined with swathes of the population working from home, pushed time spent on news digital sites and apps up by roughly 29% for March, compared to the same period the previous month.
The MandarinGovernment must act now to save public interest journalism
03/27/2020The Public Interest Journalism Initiative (PIJI) is calling on the Federal Government to put in place emergency measures to save the country’s news industry at a time that so clearly demonstrates its role in Australia’s emergency infrastructure.
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