A study of news media coverage of nine Victorian councils before and during the 2024 Victorian local government elections. It suggests that the editorial interest in and capacity to produce independent coverage of council elections remains high.

Court reporting is an important historical function of journalism. In part, this is due to news media’s role in enabling open justice, the goal described as ‘justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done’. This report is based on a six-month analysis of court reporting in regional New South Wales...

In November 2019, the Centre for International Economics prepared a report for the Public Interest Journalism Initiative looking at the idea of a tax concession for public interest journalism. This update report uses February 2024 survey data to provide updated estimates of willingness to pay, as well as updated estimates of the benefits and costs...

This is a report of results of a survey commissioned by the Public Interest Journalism Initiative from Essential Media. Essential Media conduct a fortnightly omnibus survey, in which five questions relating to public interest journalism were included. This survey was conducted online from 7-11 February 2024, and had 1149 respondents (95 per cent certainty for...

This report summarises news content sampling undertaken in 2023. It includes the results of two new studies - a comparative sample of news production in the Eyre Peninsula, conducted in February and November 2023, and a study of court reporting conducted across regional New South Wales.