Three noted thinkers on the changing nature of media and its consumers: MIT's Henry Jenkins, Mark Deuze from Leiden University in the Netherlands and Australia's John Hartley, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation.

Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah discusses visibility in the media and the preconceptions and stereotyping that tag some people as less than desirable and see others ignored altogether.

A look at the way in which the Australian advertising industry is adapting to the challenges of the modern age of communication.

Described by Walter Bagehot as a novelist who was 'a special correspondent for posterity', Charles Dickens began his professional writing career as a journalist: first as a parliamentary reporter, then as the author of sketches for daily and weekly papers (later collected as Sketches by Boz). His first 'novel', The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick...

The Media Report looks at the health and structure of children's television in Australia... and they also find out whether a Coalition promise to fund a new ABC children's channel will be taken up by the new government.