Examines the recent performance of newspapers as a basis for understanding the current state of play in the industry. Introduction

Introduction: The growth of the internet as a popular news and advertising medium has spawned a deep structural adjustment process in the Australian newspaper industry. The emergence and rapid growth of online competition in the advertising market has greatly eroded the traditional primacy of newspapers as an advertising medium. The magnitude of the threat of...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of quotas for Australian programs on television. The 1961 quotas gave practical effect to a legislated general obligation of stations to employ 'Australians, as far as is possible, in the production and presentation of programs' (Broadcasting and Television Act 1942, S 114 (1)) which had been...

This paper presents an analysis of trends in concentration of electronic media industries in Australia over the past two decades.

A decade after the Australian Government decided to embark on the conversion of analog free-to-air television to digital transmission much remains to be done to achieve that goal. After the latest changes to the implementation program, analog switchoff is planned to occur progressively starting with a regional trial in the second half of 2010 and...