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Media Files
by The Conversation
Media Files is produced by a team of journalist/academics who have spent decades working in and reporting on the media industry. They’re passionate about sharing their understanding of the media landscape, especially how media policy, commercial manoeuvres and digital disruption are affecting the kinds of media and journalism we consume. The media is evolving rapidly, as new platforms and trends come and go. As old media empires collapse, new ones are forming. But the need to protect diversity, public interest journalism and public broadcasting has, arguably, never been greater.Catch Media Files each month for discussion about the key issues and ideas facing this vital industry.
Episodes
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Internet sabbaths and surveillance capitalism in the COVID-19 era: William Powers on what’s changed since Hamlet’s Blackberry
Shutterstock COVID-19 has affected our relationship with technology in many ways, from the pleasures of mass online choirs to the perils of the endless Zoom meetings rendering us “zoombies”. Connectivity is so hard-wired in our lives, many are re-assessing the virtues of being disconnected. Ten...
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‘Suck it and see’ or face a digital tax, former ACCC boss Allan Fels warns Google and Facebook
Have you used Google lately and been greeted by a yellow warning saying that the way Australians search on Google is under threat? To understand why these messages are appearing, Media Files interviewed former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Professor Allan…
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Media Files: Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don’t want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?
Big Tech companies have built a better trap for profiting from consumers' attention than the traditional media can offer. Shutterstock Media companies around the world are in an existential funk. The tech giants - Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon - have built a better mousetrap for profiting…
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Media Files: investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer, who led the Panama Papers tax exposé
The Panama Papers was the biggest-ever collaboration for investigative journalism, involving 400 journalists in 80 countries who collectively produced 6,000 stories in 100 different media outlets. Shutterstock Today on Media Files, a podcast on major themes and issues in the media, we meet…
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Media Files: ACCC seeks to clip wings of tech giants like Facebook and Google but international effort is required
AAP/EPA/JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE In a landmark report, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has urged the federal government to fix the uneven market power of digital companies like Facebook and Google that make it almost impossible for traditional media companies to compete for...
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Media Files: Washington Post weather editor Jason Samenow on how weather coverage is evolving – and building audience growth
The world's weather is changing and the media needs to keep up. Flickr/Shannon Dizmang, CC BY When he founded the blog CapitalWeather.com 15 years ago in Washington DC, Jason Samenow was working for the US government as a climate change analyst. A full-time media career was probably the last…
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Media Files: Australians’ trust in news media is falling as concern over ‘fake news’ grows
The report found that Australian news consumers access news less often and have lower interest in it compared to citizens in many other countries. Shutterstock On today’s episode, we hear from Caroline Fisher, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Canberra and lead author of…
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Media Files: Investigative reporter Louise Milligan on Cardinal Pell and redactions in the Royal Commission’s report
David Crosling/AAP Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against child sexual assault convictions kicks off this week, but when that’s over Pell still has another reckoning to face: the unredacted findings of Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. When the royal commission...
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Media Files: Facebook’s Mia Garlick on #Ausvotes2019 and how Australian MPs use social media
Facebook's Mia Garlick says, 'we're frequently seeing politicians use the Facebook Live tool to augment a press conference or to directly speak to voters about the issues of importance of the day.' AAP/MICK TSIKAS As we enter the final straight of the Australian election campaign, we ask you: how...
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Media Files: Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the ‘disappointing’ banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers
Adele Ferguson, the celebrated journalist who many credit as the driving force behind the banking royal commission, says that the commission 'didn't go anywhere near far enough.' KYM SMITH/AAP Today on Media Files, it’s journalism versus the big banks. We’re hearing from Adele Ferguson, the...
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PODCAST: Pell trial reporters, a judge and a media lawyer on why the suppression order debate is far from over
Today on Media Files we look at the suppression order that prevented the Australian media reporting the Pell case - and why rushing to judge-only criminal trials may be a mistake. AAP/PAUL TYQUIN When Judge Peter Kidd sentenced Cardinal George Pell last week, it was broadcast live on radio and...
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Media Files: Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian’s Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
Perhaps readers want less on what Trump is saying and more on what his administration is doing. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN / POOL/EPA Today we’re taking a look back at some of the biggest issues of 2018 with special guest Kath Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian. As the media grappled this year with…
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Media Files: What does the future newsroom look like?
Alan Soon of Splice Media is promising a million dollars to give to start-ups to transform media in Asia. Shutterstock Today on Media Files, a podcast about the major themes and issues in the media, we’re looking at the future newsroom. We often hear about the doom and gloom of established media...
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Media Files: Guardian Australia’s Katharine Murphy and former MP David Feeney on the digital disruption of media and politics
The advent of the internet has changed how politics and the media influence each other - and not always in a good way. AAP Image/Lukas Coch Today on Media Files, a podcast about the major issues in the media, we’re taking a close look at the role of the news media in politics. As the Wentworth...
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Media Files: ABC boss Michelle Guthrie sacked, but the board won’t say why
Former ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie looking toward a different future earlier this year at the ABC's first Annual Public Meeting. JOEL CARRETT/AAP The major question following the sacking of ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie is why? Why did the ABC board move so decisively and why...
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Media Files: On the Serena Williams cartoon – and how the UK phone hacking scandal led to a media crackdown in South Africa
Serena Williams and Brian Earley at the US Open Grand Slam, 2018. AAP/Daniel Murphy Mark Knight’s cartoon in The Herald Sun has become a global topic of condemnation and debate because of its negative portrayal of American tennis player Serena Williams. It was widely described as racist. The news...
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Media Files: Spotlight’s Walter V. Robinson and the Newcastle Herald’s Chad Watson on covering clergy abuse - and the threats that followed
Walter V. Robinson, the US investigative journalist who was portrayed by Michael Keaton in the film Spotlight, talks to Media Files about his team’s investigation into child abuse in the Catholic Church. EPA/ETTORE FERRARI/AAP If you’ve seen the movie Spotlight, about the Boston Globe…
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Media Files: What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
A merger between Nine and Fairfax was announced in July this year. AAP Image/Dean Lewins You don’t need to be a journalist or a news junkie to be affected by the media. Its enormous influence in shaping our culture, politics and society means we all have a stake in how it functions, who it serves...
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Media Files: a new podcast from The Conversation
idea No matter what we read, watch or listen to, we’re all affected by the media and how it works. It shapes our culture, drives policy and politics, and is an essential part of a functioning democracy. But how is the media in Australia changing? And is the media getting it right? Media Files is…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Media Files is produced by a team of journalist/academics who have spent decades working in and reporting on the media industry. They’re passionate about sharing their understanding of the media landscape, especially how media policy, commercial manoeuvres and digital disruption are affecting the kinds of media and journalism we consume. The media is evolving rapidly, as new platforms and trends come and go. As old media empires collapse, new ones are forming. But the need to protect diversity, public interest journalism and public broadcasting has, arguably, never been greater.Catch Media Files each month for discussion about the key issues and ideas facing this vital industry.
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