The UK-based Financial Times has joined the New York Times in announcing it was moving away from its subscription-based approach towards a largely free internet service. In Australia, the only major newspaper online that operates as a pay-to-view service is the Financial Review, owned by Fairfax. Respected media analyst Steve Allen, from Fusion Strategies, is...

While Australian TV networks are only just discovering online opportunities, in the United States the major networks are embracing online programme delivery. And it's particularly evident with the beginning of the 'fall' TV season.

It's more than 40 years since Oz magazine scandalised Britain and made its editors a cause celebre for free speech when they were jailed for obscenity. That time seems a world away from the internet age, but when Joshua Fanning read an article about Oz founder, Richard Neville, he was immediately fascinated. Fanning, and fellow...

Another perspective on the federal government's new funding scheme aimed at revitalising Australian TV and film production. Antony Funnell talks to Sydney-based film and television producer Penny Chapman.

During the X-Media Lab conference entitled, 'Digital Worlds: Social, Virtual, Mobile'. held in Melbourne from 10 - 12 August 2007, ABC Radio National reporter James Panichi interviewed Indian filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur and American Brian Gruber, the founder and CEO of San Francisco based FORA.TV. FORA.TV is a website where academics and those involved in conferences...