Bad news for young journalists

There seems to be more ‘news’ than ever, but shrinking budgets and job insecurity means there are fewer opportunities for young journalists, and that’s bad news, especially in regional Australia.

All the slop that’s fit to print

Newspapers and other media organisations around the world are using AI to cut costs and increase output without informing their customers, so have executives and journalists skipped the ethics conversation when it comes to using AI?

Uncovering election coverage

Media coverage in Australia of the US presidential election and of the Voice referendum in October 2023 offer some pointers to what we might expect during next year’s federal election campaign.

Tech bros and media barons

Is the world better off with “tech bros” like Elon Musk who demand unlimited freedom to brazenly assert their influence, or old-style media moguls who spin fine-sounding rhetoric about freedom of the press but exert influence under the cover of journalism?

The men who killed the news

A new book examines the way modern media and technology moguls have dismantled journalistic ethics in pursuit of personal profit and undermined democracy itself.

Online advertising, not social media, killed traditional journalism

Traditional newspapers relied on advertising revenue to subsidise their journalism and so when most adverts shifted online, journalism suffered as a result, and this – rather than the rise of social media – is the crucial factor.

Real journalists can lead the war against deepfakes

This year is vital for democracy and AI is already wreaking havoc on a news landscape struggling to cope with a range of other threats and crisis.

Tucker Quisling

Tucker Carlson is not the first American reporter to travel to a foreign dictatorship and produce propaganda in the guise of journalism, but he is none the less contemptible for that.

The other side of the story

Female journalists in the Pacific are mobilising to work together against gender discrimination in male dominated workplaces.

Russia’s war on journalists

Along with targeting civilians, hospitals, schools, orphanages, residential buildings and churches in Ukraine, Putin’s henchmen have also been gunning down journalists, just as they do in Russia itself where almost 50 journalists have been murdered since his criminal regime came to power.

Journalism on the front lines of freedom

Autocrats know that controlling the media is the first step in controlling the population. It’s why journalists are increasingly in the firing line.

No news isn’t good news

Thousands of Australian journalists have lost their jobs in recent years as traditional newsrooms cut staff after advertising revenues collapsed in the face of internet competition.