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Facebook’s ban on news is a damning view of Australia’s media industry.
Sorry Australia, you’re getting the media you deserve.
Digital-only newsrooms in firing line as Australian news laws grind towards reality
Traditional publishers stand to win in scorched earth aftermath of struggle with tech giants.
What’s the value of news to the platforms?
Australia’s reckoning with Facebook and Google over news is setting the industry up for more turmoil.
Australia’s fires point to another inferno: the state of the country’s media
The role of the media is a life-and-death story in Australia.
Never mind the death of women’s magazines in Australia. Primer believes the money’s on digital — and enough to give away to charity.
Started by ex-magazine editors, the Primer blends editorial work and social impact for women.
Kristofor Lawson is building a global media company around the seed of a single podcast, Moonshot.
Scaling Australian media, one podcast at a time.
I don’t like being told what to think, says founder of apolitical news site The Squiz.
Former Tony Abbott spin doctor and now self-funded entrepreneur Claire Kimball has become one of Australia’s rising media stars with her quirky brand of daily news digests.
How Australia’s Junkee Media is growing up – and down – with its changing readership.
After quickly gaining traction with millennials, Junkee is conquering a new challenge: reaching the next generation of young Aussies.
Enter Liminal, the new media force carving out a space for Asian-Australians.
Fed up with ‘male, stale, and pale’ in Australia's media landscape, Leah Jing created her own platform.
Nine’s takeover of Fairfax spells trouble not just for Australia’s mainstream media — but for startups and independents too.
The biggest proposed merger in Australian media history is setting off alarm bells across the industry.
Australia’s digital media inquiry suffers from a public interest deficit.
Is the government-ordered inquiry about re-invigorating quality journalism — or protecting the country's flailing print duopoly?
Seeking a wider readership, The Australian reaches out to Chinese readers Down Under.
The national broadsheet is the first major commercial outlet to offer news in a language other than English.
Erin Cook’s newsletter is brash, funny, and an indispensable guide to Southeast Asia news.
Sometimes if you can't find what you want, you'll just have to write it yourself. This is how one Australian journalist is building a community around her newsletter.
How Australia’s Stockhead uses the best of digital marketing to build a niche audience of stock traders.
Custom audiences, re-targeting, lookalikes. Not the kind of stuff you'd hear in a newsroom. That's the difference.
Australia, one of Asia-Pacific’s rare defenders of press freedom, may soon have a law that silences journalists.
Communicating or handling of sensitive government information could soon be punishable by up to 20 years in prison.