South Sudanese-Australian commentator Nelly Yoa has been a prominent voice in the "African gang crisis" -- but he's not new to media attention.
Politicians are employing Trumpish methods to decry the spectre of "African gangs", and the media is all too eager to help out.
The story yesterday of the car attack in Melbourne's city, apart from some ill-placed advertising and some bad takes online, was as good as can be expected.
As the year winds down news outlets are filling their content gaps with best-of-the-lists. In the spirit of the season, here are some of the best.
Chris Uhlmann, fresh at Nine, is getting plenty of attention for his fill-in job at the commercial network's breakfast program, Today.
A 7.30 story on long-acting contraceptives influenced women to cancel their implants -- an example of the media's influence on people's health decisions.
Been involved in an imbroglio lately? Didn't think so.
Caroline Marcus was forced to walkback claims about Channel Nine's culpability in the Ben McCormack case. Plus other media tid bits for the day.
The final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will be made public today. Here's how the media is covering it.
The frequent claim that the ABC has been dumbed down has itself been dumbed right down. But that doesn't excuse the ABC's decline.
