Three years after generative artificial intelligence (AI) threatened to become a major disruptor to the journalism industry, this report finds it remains neither its saviour nor its downfall. The report examines key global developments in generative AI, its ongoing impact on public interest journalism, and the views of Australian newsrooms towards using it.

This report examines how best to provide regional media with the resources it needs to produce quality public interest journalism, and, with that journalism, to establish links to metropolitan media, so that all Australians have a sense of what the significant issues facing regional dwellers are and how they can best be tackled by policymakers.

Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code prompted digital platforms to reach commercial agreements to support the production of news. But as the first cycle of agreements concluded and Meta threatened to withdraw news from Facebook in Australia, there was a need to explore new mechanisms to support the production of news. This report examines two alternative...

This report presents a preliminary account of enforcement action taken by the Australian Communications and Media Authority between 2010 and 2023 in relation to four sources of consumer protection rules arising out of the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth). The report highlights the importance of publicly available data on enforcement of consumer protection rules.

In the second of their regional media reports, the Centre for Media Transition has been examining the flow of narratives between metro and regional news media on important policy discussions.