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Australian News Data Report - Monthly issue

29 Oct 2024

This outlet provided the highest volume of election coverage out of the outlets sampled, largely in the form of profiles of the current mayor and other councillors not contesting the upcoming election, profiles of candidates, and election information for both Goulburn Mulwaree council and Upper Lachlan Shire council. [...] 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. [...] • 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.

Authors

Gary Dickson

Pages
24
Published in
Australia

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