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24 June 2024

Local news holds up, payments plateau

Regional audiences are among the most interested in local news, the Digital News Report has found, in a report that has both positive and negative findings for local media.

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8 March 2024

Meta’s lost revenue is a huge hit for public interest journalism, which was already reeling from cutbacks

Public interest journalism was already under significant stress in Australia. And now the pressure is ratcheting up even further.

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5 August 2022

New funding for news

This week, the Federal Government announced the Regional and Local Newspaper Publishers Program 2022, its first package of support for local media.

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27 May 2022

What to expect from Labor

We have a few clues about what to expect from the new federal Labor Government.

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8 April 2022

Saving regional news (again)

Another federal inquiry treads familiar ground.

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8 March 2020

Local news sources are closing across Australia. We are tracking the devastation (and some reasons for hope)

The Yarram Standard and Great Southern Star, both of which have covered South Gippsland for well over a century, won’t be returning from their coronavirus-enforced suspensions.

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21 June 2019

WIN or lose for rural viewers?

Does the regional broadcaster’s decision to close more newsrooms breach its licence obligations?

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10 July 2018

Offshore detention is central to Nauru’s move against press freedom

The press freedom situation in Nauru has deteriorated rapidly over the last half-decade

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4 June 2018

GDPR and data privacy in Australia

New rules for handling personal data in Europe may result in better protection for Australians.

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