My review of Part 1 of veteran journalist Jim Tucker’s memoir Flair and loathing on the front page has been published in the Pacific Journalism Review. (click for link)
Category: Articles
Social media: Kid gloves or boxing gloves?
The Australian government is taking a tough line with social media companies like Google and Facebook over use of local news content. New Zealand is taking a softer line. I examine the moves on both sides of the Tasman on Auckland University’s The Big Q. Here is a link to the article: https://publicinterestmedia.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/2020/05/26/are-google-and-facebook-taking-new-zealand-for-a-ride-a-trans-tasman-divide-on-social-media/
We need balance in media ecosystem
A companion article to the submission I made this week to Parliament’s Epidemic Response Select Committee has been posted on The Democracy Project website. In it I call for a balanced approach to the preservation of the New Zealand media ecosystem. We need strong public AND private sector news organisations. Here is the link The Democracy Project
Christchurch mosque attacks:The media’s proximity filter
Almost 300 stories published by New Zealand and Australian metropolitan newspapers in the days following the attacks, together with web-based content by television broadcasters, were analysed by Dr Gavin Ellis, an Auckland media consultant and former editor-in-chief of the New Zealand Herald, and Dr Denis Muller, a Melbourne University researcher and former associate editor of The Age. They also interviewed news executives in both countries. Continue reading “Christchurch mosque attacks:The media’s proximity filter”