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    Articles tagged Australia (39)

    Joshua BentonFebruary 18, 2021
    In Australia, Facebook’s ban on sharing news stories has sent publishers’ traffic tumbling
    Audience declines of 20 percent or more have followed Facebook taking its traffic ball and going home.
    The U.S. asks Australia to reconsider a plan to make Google and Facebook pay for news
    Hal CrawfordSeptember 21, 2020
    Digital-only newsrooms are in the firing line as Australian news law grinds toward reality
    Lifestyle and youth publishers that source the majority of their traffic from Facebook face closure, while traditional media players that campaigned for the laws look set to be the relative winners.
    Michael JensenJuly 14, 2020
    A debate over 5G shows how misinformation has made its way to the highest levels of government
    “It is not common for a parliamentary inquiry to have to rebut the dodgy scientific claims it receives in the form of public submissions.”
    Hal CrawfordJune 15, 2020
    Australia is trying to make Facebook and Google pay for news. Facebook Australia says it doesn’t need news, actually.
    Facebook and Google argue that the value they derive from news content is marginal and they don’t believe they should be responsible for funding it.
    Alexandra WakeMarch 3, 2020
    The Australian Associated Press, the country’s main wire service, is going out of business
    It’s the latest blow to national wire services around the world — the little-noticed backbone of much of the reporting seen across media.
    In Australia, a new government policy adds protections for journalists, but leaves whistleblowers out in the cold (and leaves plenty of questions)
    Andre ObolerApril 4, 2019
    In Australia, a new law on livestreaming terror attacks doesn’t take into account how the internet actually works
    It forces every part of the internet stack — platforms, hosting providers, ISPs — to remove violent video before they’re even made aware of it.
    Matthew Ricketson and Alexandra WakeMarch 8, 2019
    Should news orgs be legally liable for the traumatic situations they put reporters in? A landmark court decision in Australia says yes
    A judge ruled that a newspaper, like any employer, has “a duty to take reasonable care against the risk of foreseeable injury, including foreseeable psychiatric injury,” to its staff. Will the threat of lawsuits push newsrooms to provide more support to journalists?
    Laura Hazard OwenOctober 29, 2018
    A massive Facebook group — made up almost entirely of women — is helping to solve a case gripping Australia
    “We couldn’t get the plans, but through the audience we managed to do it. I feel like screaming, hurray, how awesome.”
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