Australia currently has fourteen standards schemes that oversee journalists and news media, making for both duplication and inconsistency. The result is a torn and frayed patchwork leaving broadcasting heavily regulated but some areas of online content without any applicable standards or clear avenues for consumer complaint. In this article, we describe Australia’s confusion of news media standards schemes amid the global challenges to media oversight in a digital age, including from the algorithmically driven delivery of news via social media and other digital services. We argue that internationally the ongoing disruption of news media is being accompanied by a parallel disruption of news media standards schemes. This creates significant uncertainty, particularly since citizens and journalists have contrasting expectations about news media oversight. However, this uncertainty also presents an opportunity for reform. We then draw on international scholarship and regulatory developments to make four high-level arguments. First, Australia should implement a coherent cross-platform standards scheme to cover news content on TV, on radio, in print and online. Second, digital services and platforms ought to be brought under this scheme in their role as distributors and amplifiers of news, but not as ‘publishers’. Third, this scheme ought to have oversight of algorithms. And fourth, citizens ought to be afforded a greater role in the operation of this scheme, which has significant potential to serve the public interest by improving public discourse.
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Review of: Media Unmade: Australian Media’s Most Disruptive Decade, Tim Burrowes (2021)Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 423 pp.,ISBN 978-1-74379-730-3, p/bk, $34.99
《媒体未造:澳大利亚媒体最具颠覆性的十年》，Tim Burrowes(2021)，墨尔本:Hardie Grant Books, 423页，ISBN 978-1-74379-730-3, p/bk, 34.99美元
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Review of: Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News, Anya Schiffrin (ed.) (2021)New York: Columbia University Press, 328 pp.,ISBN 978-0-23118-882-1, h/bk, USD 120.00ISBN 978-0-23118-883-8, p/bk, USD 30.00ISBN 978-0-23154-802-1, e-book, USD 29.99
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{"title":"Upheaval: Disrupted Lives in Journalism, Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson (Eds) (2021)","authors":"Nat Kassel","doi":"10.1386/ajr_00094_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00094_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Upheaval: Disrupted Lives in Journalism, Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson (Eds) (2021)Sydney: UNSW Press, 368 pp.,ISBN 978-1-74223-727-5, p/bk, $39.99ISBN 978-1-74224-528-7, e-book, $14.99","PeriodicalId":36614,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journalism Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45862183","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 article examines the Australian mainstream media’s foreign news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. It finds that the Australian mainstream media has comprehensively covered the devastation of COVID-19 in the United States and the United Kingdom, but there was scant coverage of the death toll and policy problems of countries in Australia’s region, particularly in neighbouring Southeast Asia. I documented COVID-19 television coverage in the ABC’s 7 p.m. news, ABC’s 730 current affairs programme and three major Australian broadsheet newspapers: the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald and the West Australian. In a global pandemic causing widespread deaths on every continent, the article shows how the Australian mainstream media’s vast disparity in world coverage conveys a distorted reality of ‘newsworthy’ pandemic coverage, one that I argue does not reflect Australia’s increasingly diverse population nor its place in the Asia Pacific region.
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