All is not well in the studios, agencies, newsrooms and on the sets of the media we love so much. Reports on the mental health and well-being of media professionals suggest that they tend to score high on depression, stress and burnout, and considering suicide. Documented causes tend to be particular to the working conditions of the media industry – such as unusually high work intensity and tight deadlines, little or no work-life balance in the context of precarious careers, experiences of toxic working environments and an over-identification of the self with work. The industry furthermore lacks resources and corresponding capabilities to recognize when and how its people are in distress, and offers little in the way of opportunities to discuss or otherwise meaningfully address mental health and well-being at work. This contribution explores ways we can map, explain and tackle the mental health crisis in media work through interventions in research, theory, teaching and practice.
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Review of: Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity, Sylvain Parasie (2022) New York: Columbia University Press, 292 pp., ISBN 978-0-23119-976-6, h/bk, USD 140.00 ISBN 978-0-23119-977-3, p/bk, USD 35.00 ISBN 978-0-23155-327-8, e-book, USD 34.99
《计算新闻:数据新闻与追求客观性》，Sylvain Parasie(2022)纽约:哥伦比亚大学出版社，292页，ISBN 978-0-23119-976-6, h/bk, USD 140.00 ISBN 978-0-23119-977-3, p/bk, USD 35.00 ISBN 978-0-23155-327-8，电子书，USD 34.99
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Many people would say that journalism is in crisis. In Australia, we regularly see front pages in our newspapers that show scant regard for the facts and are clearly partisan. Two former prime ministers have called for a Royal Commission into the media. Incursions on media freedom are frequent, and Australia has dropped down the scale on measures of media freedom. Meanwhile, repeated attempts to improve self-regulation have created only cynicism. Meanwhile lawyers, doctors and even builders have professional associations in which industry practice and ethics can be discussed. No such body exists for journalists. Social media contains plenty of criticism of journalism, but most are poorly informed and the profession reacts defensively. In this article, I will argue that some of the ideas about journalism that we teach, and measure the profession against, are not as historically well based as we like to think. Journalism has been many things since the profession was created, not all of them good. Now, though, there is the potential for a conversation with the public about what we want journalism to be. What role might universities play in advancing such a conversation? And what outcomes should we seek?
{"title":"A conversation about journalism: A role for universities?","authors":"M. Simons","doi":"10.1386/ajr_00117_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00117_7","url":null,"abstract":"Many people would say that journalism is in crisis. In Australia, we regularly see front pages in our newspapers that show scant regard for the facts and are clearly partisan. Two former prime ministers have called for a Royal Commission into the media. Incursions on media freedom are frequent, and Australia has dropped down the scale on measures of media freedom. Meanwhile, repeated attempts to improve self-regulation have created only cynicism. Meanwhile lawyers, doctors and even builders have professional associations in which industry practice and ethics can be discussed. No such body exists for journalists. Social media contains plenty of criticism of journalism, but most are poorly informed and the profession reacts defensively. In this article, I will argue that some of the ideas about journalism that we teach, and measure the profession against, are not as historically well based as we like to think. Journalism has been many things since the profession was created, not all of them good. Now, though, there is the potential for a conversation with the public about what we want journalism to be. What role might universities play in advancing such a conversation? And what outcomes should we seek?","PeriodicalId":36614,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journalism Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48158685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: News Values from an Audience Perspective, Martina Temmerman and Jelle Mast (eds) (2021) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 190 pp., ISBN 978-3-03045-045-8, h/bk, EUR 99.99 ISBN 978-3-03045-048-9, p/bk, EUR 69.99 ISBN 978-3-03045-046-5, e-book, EUR 58.54
{"title":"News Values from an Audience Perspective, Martina Temmerman and Jelle Mast (eds) (2021)","authors":"Gavin Ellis","doi":"10.1386/ajr_00123_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00123_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: News Values from an Audience Perspective, Martina Temmerman and Jelle Mast (eds) (2021)\u0000 Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 190 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-3-03045-045-8, h/bk, EUR 99.99\u0000 ISBN 978-3-03045-048-9, p/bk, EUR 69.99\u0000 ISBN 978-3-03045-046-5, e-book, EUR 58.54","PeriodicalId":36614,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journalism Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42103398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: The Global Handbook of Media Accountability, Susanne Fengler, Tobias Eberwein and Matthias Karmasin (eds) (2021) Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 632 pp., ISBN 978-0-36734-628-7, h/bk, AUD 399.00, ISBN 978-0-42932-694-3, e-book, AUD 68.39
{"title":"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability, Susanne Fengler, Tobias Eberwein and Matthias Karmasin (eds) (2021)","authors":"Mary-Anne Romano","doi":"10.1386/ajr_00109_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00109_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Global Handbook of Media Accountability, Susanne Fengler, Tobias Eberwein and Matthias Karmasin (eds) (2021)\u0000 Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 632 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-0-36734-628-7, h/bk, AUD 399.00,\u0000 ISBN 978-0-42932-694-3, e-book, AUD 68.39","PeriodicalId":36614,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journalism Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48325953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Collaborative approaches to news production are increasingly being trialled across the globe in an attempt to alleviate a well-documented crisis in local news. Of particular interest to Australian policy-makers is the BBC Local Democracy Reporting project which funds journalists to be based in local news outlets to provide local government reporting, as well as data journalism initiatives. There is political will that such an approach could be adopted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to support the nation’s rural and regional news provisions. This article draws on data from six interpretive focus groups involving 50 news workers from independent Australian local news publishers to consider whether smaller publishers would welcome a collaborative approach with the ABC. It finds that a one-size-fits-all collaborative approach is unlikely to be suitable for the Australian regional media landscape and that more work is needed developing an understanding of an appropriate framework that may be tailored to best meet the needs of different local news outlets.
{"title":"Exploring small newspaper attitudes to a collaborative approach with Australia’s primary public broadcaster (ABC)","authors":"Kristy Hess, A. Ross","doi":"10.1386/ajr_00105_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00105_1","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative approaches to news production are increasingly being trialled across the globe in an attempt to alleviate a well-documented crisis in local news. Of particular interest to Australian policy-makers is the BBC Local Democracy Reporting project which funds journalists to be based in local news outlets to provide local government reporting, as well as data journalism initiatives. There is political will that such an approach could be adopted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to support the nation’s rural and regional news provisions. This article draws on data from six interpretive focus groups involving 50 news workers from independent Australian local news publishers to consider whether smaller publishers would welcome a collaborative approach with the ABC. It finds that a one-size-fits-all collaborative approach is unlikely to be suitable for the Australian regional media landscape and that more work is needed developing an understanding of an appropriate framework that may be tailored to best meet the needs of different local news outlets.","PeriodicalId":36614,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journalism Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42198308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, Nils Melzer and Oliver Kobold (2022) London: Verso Books, 354 pp., ISBN 978-1-83976-622-0, h/bk, AUD 39.99 ISBN 978-1-83976-625-1, US e-book, USD 8.99 ISBN 978-1-83976-624-4, UK e-book, GBP 12.00
{"title":"The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, Nils Melzer and Oliver Kobold (2022)","authors":"Nick Richardson","doi":"10.1386/ajr_00112_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00112_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, Nils Melzer and Oliver Kobold (2022)\u0000 London: Verso Books, 354 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-83976-622-0, h/bk, AUD 39.99\u0000 ISBN 978-1-83976-625-1, US e-book, USD 8.99\u0000 ISBN 978-1-83976-624-4, UK e-book, GBP 12.00","PeriodicalId":36614,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journalism Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46608977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Ch’ng, Kashifa Aslam, Huong Nguyen, Bradley Smith
This study explores levels of interest in and framing of Australian First Nations constitutional reform in minority ethnic media. A keyword search of mainstream English media in Australia and of media targeted at Chinese, Pakistani, Vietnamese and Indonesian Australian communities shows a relatively low level of interest in the publication of and government response to the Uluru Statement in the latter outlets compared to the English media. Framing analysis over an extended timeframe finds some interest in and broad support for Australian First Nations’ calls for constitutional reform in the Asian Australian media, as well as variation and suggestive correlations between framing and audience such as linking First Nations history to experiences of racism and exclusion of Chinese Australians. The study has implications both for any referendum for a First Nations Voice to Parliament and for scholarship on the role of minority ethnic media in the contemporary Australian public sphere.
{"title":"Asian Australian media representation of First Nations sovereignty and constitutional change","authors":"H. Ch’ng, Kashifa Aslam, Huong Nguyen, Bradley Smith","doi":"10.1386/ajr_00103_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00103_1","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores levels of interest in and framing of Australian First Nations constitutional reform in minority ethnic media. A keyword search of mainstream English media in Australia and of media targeted at Chinese, Pakistani, Vietnamese and Indonesian Australian communities shows a relatively low level of interest in the publication of and government response to the Uluru Statement in the latter outlets compared to the English media. Framing analysis over an extended timeframe finds some interest in and broad support for Australian First Nations’ calls for constitutional reform in the Asian Australian media, as well as variation and suggestive correlations between framing and audience such as linking First Nations history to experiences of racism and exclusion of Chinese Australians. The study has implications both for any referendum for a First Nations Voice to Parliament and for scholarship on the role of minority ethnic media in the contemporary Australian public sphere.","PeriodicalId":36614,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journalism Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47977823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This research seeks a clearer understanding of listener perspectives on issues of ethics in true crime podcasts (TCPs). To do so, the study first divides TCPs into three subgenres: Documentary, Recap and Expert. Then, it uses a mixed methods content analysis of listener reviews (n = 1200) of TCPs to ascertain listeners’ value systems and preferences when assessing podcasts, the role of ethics in audience evaluations of TCPs and the impact of subgenre on listener response. It finds that a large subsection of the reviewer audience (29.7 per cent) privileged ethics as a key criterion for evaluating and reviewing podcasts and that listeners’ level of engagement with issues of ethics is specific, careful and nuanced. It also finds that subgenre can play a role in shaping engagement with content, with Documentary and Recap formats more likely to result in listeners relating to content as entertainment.
{"title":"‘It doesn’t feel right to say how much I enjoyed this’: Listener perspectives on ethics in true crime podcasts","authors":"C. Graham, Kylie Stevenson","doi":"10.1386/ajr_00104_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00104_1","url":null,"abstract":"This research seeks a clearer understanding of listener perspectives on issues of ethics in true crime podcasts (TCPs). To do so, the study first divides TCPs into three subgenres: Documentary, Recap and Expert. Then, it uses a mixed methods content analysis of listener reviews (n = 1200) of TCPs to ascertain listeners’ value systems and preferences when assessing podcasts, the role of ethics in audience evaluations of TCPs and the impact of subgenre on listener response. It finds that a large subsection of the reviewer audience (29.7 per cent) privileged ethics as a key criterion for evaluating and reviewing podcasts and that listeners’ level of engagement with issues of ethics is specific, careful and nuanced. It also finds that subgenre can play a role in shaping engagement with content, with Documentary and Recap formats more likely to result in listeners relating to content as entertainment.","PeriodicalId":36614,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journalism Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46704311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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