Articles on media convergence

April 14, 2021

Why converging newsroom cultures can make media houses more sustainable

Media houses with digital and traditional newsrooms need to create collaborative environments to address the tensions that often emerge between the old and the new.

July 30, 2018

Starter’s gun goes off on new phase of media concentration as Nine-Fairfax lead the way

Australian media ownership is already among the most concentrated in the world, but if the competition regulator approves the Nine-Fairfax deal, expect the race for survival to produce more mergers.

November 13, 2017

Here’s why your local TV news is about to get even worse

Margot Susca, American University School of Communication

The FCC has made it even easier for broadcast media conglomerates to focus on making money. The public – who own the airwaves those companies depend on – will suffer as a result.

March 28, 2017

Trump’s FCC continues to redefine the public interest as business interests

As the Trump administration settles into office, regulators and lawmakers have big plans for shifting the country’s media landscape, with potentially profound effects on the public.

February 18, 2016

Australia can learn from Indonesia’s experience before relaxing its media laws

Ross Tapsell, Australian National University

Indonesia’s media landscape may be a model which Australia is emulating as it looks to change media ownership laws. There are positives to this, but also causes for concern.

November 18, 2014

With budget cuts coming, ABC and SBS stand divided

Ben Goldsmith, Queensland University of Technology

Did SBS chief executive Michael Ebeid score a well-timed free kick or an own goal in his attack on the ABC this week? The ABC recently secured the free-to-air television rights for the Asian Cup football…

October 12, 2012

Turnbull overlooks diversity in media regulation dismissal

Charis Palmer, The Conversation

Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull is overlooking critical issues of diversity and public interest in dismissing the need for further media regulation, say media experts. Mr Turnbull…

Related Topics

  1. Australian media
  2. Convergence review
  3. FCC
  4. Federal Communications Commission
  5. Internet
  6. media conglomerates
  7. Media diversity
  8. Net neutrality
  9. Peacebuilding
  10. TV

Top contributors

  1. Ben Goldsmith Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
  2. Ross Tapsell Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific., Australian National University
  3. Tim Dwyer Associate Professor, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
  4. Christopher Ali Pioneers Chair in Telecommunications & Professor of Telecommunications, Penn State
  5. Julian Thomas Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, and Professor of Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology
  6. Margot Susca Assistant Professor, American University School of Communication
  7. Wambui Wamunyu Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Daystar University