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For over 50 years, Rupert Murdoch has poisoned UK media and twisted political leaders to serve his own interests. With another Murdoch family tycoon in charge, the unaccountable & anti-democratic empire he made remains theguardian.com/media/2023/sep…

bbc.com/news/world-aus… #MECO6902

Similar points…’Rupert Murdoch is a symptom’: Fox’s future politics look the same as past theguardian.com/media/2023/sep… #MECO6902

The 'yes' Voice campaign is far outspending 'no' in online advertising, but is the message getting through? theconversation.com/the-yes-voice-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand #MECO6902

the new book has landed...great cover by Tanya Montefusco and DALL.E.2 Derek Wilding Jonathon Hutchinson Saba Bebawi Kari Karppinen @ IntellectBooks and distributed by University of Chicago Press press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

The news is fading from sight on big social media platforms – where does that leave journalism? theconversation.com/the-news-is-fa… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

In this episode of Double Take, Michael speaks to Charlie Beckett, the founding director of Polis@LSE, about the risks and opportunities generative AI brings to news organisations around the world - including the moral panic it has stirred up. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/centr…

Tim talks media diversity and regional media with Genevieve Jacobs AM on how regional media organisations can tackle some of the challenges of the modern media environment. Listen below! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/centr…

Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of fair & open markets, devlopment for all etc. but in practice the way financial markets are organized & regulated leads to an enormous income transfer from global South to global North, year after year & growing over time

"What is the value of news for a platform", Jesper Doub, ex-Meta, is asked. "None", he answers. Adds it might even be "negative, a cost", given the friction. Points out his former employer seems able to walk away from news with no commercial loss (at least short-term). #ijf24

Really enjoyed this Knight First Amendment Institute panel on the future of press freedom with Wesley, Heidi Kitrosser, Dr. Courtney Radsch. I argued for a positive-rights paradigm toward "non-reformist media reforms" to rebuild and transform what's left of local journalism. youtube.com/watch?v=vRbYgI…

JMAD/IAMCR pre-conference Political Economy of Journalism is soon ready to go! #iamcr24 #iamcr #jmad #aut #journalism #aut #auckland

Adding to the studies by Reuters Institute and others, evidence is growing to show how AI search tools harm diversity and visibility of news - my new study, presented at the IAMCR conference in Christchurch IAMCR @mediamorphis Victor Pickard Katja Lehtisaari theconversation.com/ai-search-tool…

Blame Telegram, X, Russia, algorithms, foreign influence etc for the riots - just don’t ask what impact years of fomenting Islamophobia by mainstream UK media and politicians might have had…counterfire.org/article/talkin…

an excellent resource here abc.net.au/listen/program… #MECO6902

‘Pauline Hanson without the personality’: Dutton says he’s not racist as MPs condemn Gaza visa ban stance #MECO6902 theguardian.com/australia-news…

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option #MECO6902 abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1…

oaic.gov.au/news/media-cen… #MECO6902

researching media bias BBC... #MECO6902