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Some expected Stephen Conroy to do nothing on media reform in an election year. He’s done something — but it’s not much, and it may not pass Parliament anyway. The government’s minimalist approach fails to address convergence.

Time is ticking for the government to act on media regulation. There’s plenty of talk inside the government but nothing concrete is emerging. Could it all be too hard?

There’ll be growing pressure on governments to regulate social media like traditional media as more Australians use it. But Tony Abbott and the Coalition seem lost on the issue.

Yesterday, Bernard Keane untangled some of the false arguments behind opposition to a public interest test for media ownership. Today, David Salter reviews the parallel campaign against content regulation.

Kim Williams’ speech dealing with media regulation were so utterly cack-handed, writes David Salter, veteran journalist and former Media Watch executive producer.

Media company CEOs have written to the government expressing concern about media regulation. Crikey has obtained the unpublished letter …

ACMA’s inability to find a breach by Nine on pokies reflects not weakness but the problem of black-letter regulation.

The Convergence Review has laid the groundwork for a post-broadcasting future in spectrum allocation.

The Convergence Review gives non-commercial media, including the ABC, SBS and community broadcasters, a nice deal on spectrum, the suggestion of access to more money, and a pat on the back for doing a good job.

The current model of media ownership regulation has failed to protect our media diversity — but will the Convergence Review’s proposal work better?

“You can judge the quality of a cake from any slice,” says David Salter as he examines one juicy morsel from the Convegence Review’s final report.

Crikey readers have their say.

So the Convergence Review report is big — very big, in number of pages and in implications.

A single, revolutionary concept forms the basis of many of the recommendations of the Convergence Review.

We’re creating a one-stop shop for you: short of reading the report yourself, Crikey’s idiot’s guide to the Convergence Review is the closest you’ll come to forming a bigger picture.

Even before they could be sure of precisely what it contained, many of those who claim to speak for the press in Australia were lining up to damn the Convergence Review released today, writes David Salter.

The crisis around UK minister Jeremy Hunt illustrates the problems of a media public interest test.

There never has been, and is never likely to be, a rule that says someone who owns a company is not entitled to run it as she sees fit, within the limits of the law.

The Convergence Review has unveiled the most dramatic proposals to regulate the internet seen in Australia for years. If implemented, the proposals would represent a dramatic increase in protectionism.