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Australian News Data Report - Monthly issue

15 Jul 2024

Three Seven West Media newspapers serve the area: the Albany Advertiser and Albany Extra in the south, and the Great Southern Herald, based in Katanning in the north part of the region. [...] Government was the largest focus of public interest journalism at the public broadcaster and the second-biggest focus at the Albany Advertiser, the Denmark Bulletin and the Great Southern Herald. [...] The exception to the lack of change between the 2023 and 2024 samples is in the other PIJ section, which includes stories about the environment as well as accidents (e.g. [...] An outlet will satisfy this test if it is subject to the rules of one of the following: • 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 • Is publicly committed to substantially equivalent editorial standards relating to the provisio. [...] 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.

Authors

Gary Dickson

Related Organizations

Susan McKinnon Foundation
Pages
29
Published in
Australia

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