The Australian Federal Government’s Convergence Review, released yesterday, had a mammoth task. It was trying to establish just how to regulate the future standards, conduct, and technical aspects of today…
Dull grey tone: media organisations are "Content service enterprises", according to the Convergence Review.
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The Convergence Review’s final report is remarkable for its blandness and predictability.
Despite the cries of fear and loathing from the Murdoch stable that the cold hand of government intervention was…
The Convergence review's final recommendations have fallen short when it comes to Australian content.
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By Ben Goldsmith, Queensland University of Technology
The Convergence Review Final Report released yesterday appears at first blush to promise major changes to the Australian media landscape.
The report flags the creation of a new communications regulator…
Some of Mike Daisey's claims about what he saw at Foxconn were fabricated.
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On Friday, internationally-popular US radio show This American Life retracted its “Mr Daisey and the Apple Factory” episode upon the discovery its narrator and author Mike Daisey had fabricated some of…
Letting readers comment can direct journalism and make accountability a reality.
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On day two of the Media Inquiry, unconstrained online speech figured as a danger to democracy, rather than a new avenue for discussing media ethics and journalistic transparency.
Justice Finkelstein opened…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announces the media inquiry in September
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As journalists and academics got ready to outline a new media order at the Finkelstein inquiry yesterday, anti-regulationists lined up to dismiss the process with bipartisan relish.
On day one of the…
Media ownership is much more concentrated in Australia than in the UK, where it is under scrutiny.
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A profound shift is underway in the global news media industries. As the extensive police investigation and judicial inquiry into the News of the World phone hacking scandal continue in the UK, News Corporation…
