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Can we walk and chew gum at the same time?

In this piece, written before the election was announced, Alan Sunderland discusses how the ABC will provide both comprehensive coverage of the next federal election campaign and engaging coverage of...

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The story is the boats, not the ABC

There is a very important story running across daily news bulletins and the front pages of the newspapers at the moment. Some organisations, for reasons that are painfully apparent, think it’s a story...

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What’s wrong with being ‘fair & balanced’?

The ABC has been in the news a bit lately, not least because there is a push underway to make sure our journalism is fair and balanced. In fact, there is even a proposed law to that effect before our...

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Impartiality, the ABC and Australia Day

If you type the terms ‘Australia Day” and “ABC” into Google, you’ll get almost 800,000 hits. Most of those relate to the national broadcaster’s extensive coverage of Australia Day over the years, and...

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Why is that a story?

The question of what makes something newsworthy has always been one of the most fascinating questions in journalism. The internet is full of academic research pointing to the five elements that define...

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Another one bites the dust

Most people have heard of ESPN. It’s a world leader in sports and sports news broadcasting, with a global reach and unprecedented influence on standards of sports coverage and sports reporting. A few...

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Life…as we know it

I read in the news the other day that the ABC was about to launch “a replica version of Buzzfeed” to produce the kind of content that does well on commercial sites. I was outraged. What’s happened to...

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Keeping the media accountable

Do you trust the media? Do you believe the news you read in the papers, watch on TV, listen to on radio or (more likely, these days) flick through on your mobile phone? Or do you think the media is...

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