You've heard of 'fair trade' coffee. Well what about 'fair trade' media. Is it possible to develop a labelling system that would give people confidence in the ethical values of the sites they view? Ellie Rennie, Research Fellow at CCI and Swinburne University's Institute for Social Research says, "In the new media environment there are...

Ellie Rennie would like to make the right decisions when it comes to media distribution and use, but some things just don't add up.

How is media convergence impacting on established, ‘broadcast-era’ community media? This paper takes SYN (a community radio licensee in Melbourne) as a case study and employs media ethnography and policy analysis to identify contemporary challenges facing community media.

This online survey of 351 media industry employees from across all media sectors provides a snapshot of educational qualifications, voluntary/work experience history and other factors which assisted media industry employees to make the transition to paid employment. The survey reveals that community media contributes substantially to the media industries, providing training and networks which lead...

The new chair of the Australian Indigenous Communications Association, Jim Remedio, warns that the NT intervention is undermining Indigenous broadcasting, writes Ellie Rennie.