Tag: News Corp
New ABC chair must restore reputation for independence, says MEAA
Pacific Media Watch
The incoming chair of the ABC, Kim Williams, must immediately move to restore the reputation of Australia's national broadcaster by addressing concerns...
News Corp among Namaliu’s farewell messages – for ‘free, fearless media’
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
The late Sir Rabbie Namaliu’s character and his humble leadership featured well in one of Australia’s top news organisations...
Journalism academics question News Corp’s deal with Google and Melbourne Business...
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne; Alexandra Wake, RMIT University, and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University
News Corp Australia and Google have announced the...
Kasun Ubayasiri: How will ruthless billionaire posturing by Rupert and Zuckerberg...
COMMENT: By Kasun Ubayasiri in Brisbane
It has indeed been a few strange days for Australian news media. Apparently, monopolies are bad if they are...
Google aren’t ‘stealing’ news content, publisher Eric Beecher tells Senate
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Nine Entertainment and News Corporation are wrong to say Google and Facebook have destroyed their business models by stealing content, according...
High Court rules in favour of News Corp, but against press...
ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste of The University of Queensland
It is easy to assume Australia has a free press. Our squawky newspapers are filled with...
Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change ethically misguided and dangerous
By Denis Muller in Melbourne
In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking...
Keith Jackson: Act now over grave threat facing Australian press freedom
OPEN LETTER: By Keith Jackson
I joined the Australian Journalists Association (now the MEAA - Media Alliance) in, I think, 1971, when I still lived...
MEAA blasts ‘disturbing assaults’ on press freedom after new ABC raid
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Two raids by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on journalists and media organisations within the last 24 hours represent a disturbing...
Outrage, polls and bias: 2019 election shows media regulation needs
By Denis Muller in Melbourne
Two big media-related issues have emerged from the federal election: how opinion polls are reported and the polarisation of the...
Nauru government’s move against press freedom ‘disgraceful’
COMMENT: By Miranda Ward on Red Ink
The Nauru government’s refusal to allow the ABC from entering the country to cover the upcoming Pacific Islands...
Murdoch press in Australia linked to deforestation in Indonesia
By Vaidehi Shah
Environmental campaigners have accused The Australian and Courier Mail newspapers in regional Queensland of being printed on paper linked to illegal deforestation...