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A 2016 protest against lockout laws (Image: AAP/Paul Miller)

How the media created the Sydney lockout laws

With the review of the five-year-old laws now on its way, will we see the same media organisations turn on their heels?

Australia's failure in offshore detention reporting

International media outlets have reported a shocking rise in suicide attempts on Manus. But you wouldn’t know about it from Australia's major papers.

Communications and Arts Minister Paul Fletcher (Image: AAP/Alex Murray)

Welcome Paul Fletcher, new communications undertaker

Paul Fletcher will have the best seat in the house for an extended funeral of the Australian media sector.

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Federica Galli)

Gaming the algorithm: SEO and the battle between creativity and visibility

You can write something in the best way it can be written, or in the way it’ll get seen by the most people. These two things never align fully.

Author and journalist Naomi Wolf (Image: Flickr/Michael Fleshman)

Bungled books and matters of fact

In a week littered with literary inaccuracies, the question needs to be asked: why are so many authors getting away with sloppy research?

Australia just had its first social media election

Targeted misinformation and a quiet undercurrent of anti-immigration and anti-refugee sentiment — social media allowed the real election campaign to fly under the radar.

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Sky's not the limit as David Speers moves to the ABC

While the announcement of David Speers as the next host of Insiders was a surprise to some, it makes sense as Sky News faces an uncertain future.

The pressure is on for more media mergers

With ad revenues down across the board, don't be surprised if you see more legacy media companies pushing for mergers this year.

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Did News Corp’s Queensland monopoly decide the election?

News Corp's monopoly removes the discipline of competition, freeing an openly conservative media to be, well, more openly conservative.

Bill Shorten and Rupert Murdoch.

News Corp v Labor: 24 hours in the election news cycle

We traced News Corp's messaging on Labor from the morning papers through to Sky After Dark.