The Federal Government's media reform package has failed to attract support among the vast majority of Australian journalists, according to a survey of Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) members conducted for Crikey!, with 82% believing the changes to the media laws will have a negative impact on the integrity of reporting and 85% saying the reforms will reduce diversity.

An overwhelming majority of journalists (87%) oppose the plan to drop cross-media restrictions and 74% oppose the plan to relax foreign ownership restrictions. In addition, 70% of journalists oppose maintaining the current limit of three free-to-air commercial TV networks in capital cities.