Australian News Data Report - Monthly issue

In reviewing data related to Provincial Press Group’s acquisition of titles in New South Wales, we found that it had also taken ownership of The Monaro Post through the acquisition of the operating Australian News Data Report | January 2024 8 entity Monaro Media Group Pty Ltd in June 2022, as reported by the entity themselves in The Euroa Gazette.1 This had not been reflected in the database. [...] An outlet will satisfy this test if it is subject to the rules of the is subject to the rules of one of: • The Australian Press Council or the Independent Media Council • The Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice • The Commercial Radio Code of Practice • The Subscription Broadcast Television Codes of Practice or, • Is publicly committed to substantially equivalent editorial standards rel. [...] • If the closure of a print news outlet was logged, the event would have necessarily involved the end of a print edition; a decrease in service and the closure of a newsroom, but it would be only logged as a ‘Masthead or station closure’, as that change type ranks highest on the hierarchy. [...] The data also flattens the complexity of what is gained and lost by not having any assessment of the output, institutional characteristics or content of the news companies: the closure of a newspaper with ten working journalists appears equivalent to the opening of a website of one. [...] A news media ecosystem in which many news entrepreneurs had the confidence and the capital to establish organisations and outlets, the majority of which might fail, could be a healthy environment of public interest journalism production and competition but might appear in our data like a failing system due to the high number of closures.