Using a public interest test to manage media diversity is problematic — but it’s a popular option.
Media ownership
Media regulation review: groundbreaking, eventually changing everything
Revolutionary change to media regulation in Australia is the likely outcome of the current convergence review, something made clear in a discussion paper issued earlier this week.
Reviewing diversity in a converging media
If you were starting from scratch in regulating media ownership, what would you count as influential?
Fewer and stronger moguls — the product of our current media ownership laws
Under our current media ownership restrictions, we’ve lost a lot of media diversity and our moguls have been allowed to deepen their hold on Australian media. A national media diversity test could still help.
It’s time to revisit media diversity laws
Our national media has been reduced to six dominant groups. In the face of shrinking media diversity and an evolving media environment, it’s time to reconsider how and why we regulate media ownership.
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Who owns the news media?
An interactive database of who owns what in the US media, profiling the companies and people who decide what you read, watch and listen to every day.
Beecher: Editorial independence requires editorial competence
The bunfight over board control of WA Newspapers is revealing how people with no background in journalism or media exert increasing influence over the editorial pillar of functional democracy, writes Eric Beecher.
The business of conflict in The West
The conflicts between The West Australian’s editorial coverage and the Stokes commercial interest will be huge, so the best way to avoid this for Stokes not to be chairman., writes Stephen Mayne.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 3 July, 2007
A tragedy for Australian democracy.
