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Australian News Data Report - Monthly issue

23 Sep 2024

This structure impacts the sample: only stories that were presented on the North West Coast News section of the Mercury’s website were included, and as a consequence the results reflect a heavily localised subset of the company’s overall output in the state. [...] Government was the largest focus at The Advocate and the second-biggest focus at The Circular Head Chronicle, The Kentish Voice, and the public broadcaster. [...] On the other hand, the public broadcaster, The Advocate (A), The North West Coast News (NWCN) and Pulse Tasmania (PT) focussed on a range of local government areas in the North West, West Coast and Central Highlands regions of Tasmania. [...] 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

Pages
29
Published in
Australia

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