The accountability of the ABC and SBS should be a two-way street, writes Geoff Heriot.

Rodney Tiffen looks at the government’s current tendering process for Australia Network.

This article considers the concept of media citizenship in relation to the digital strategies of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

We have, in this brief history, a story of the varying articulation of the three business models which have, in varying degrees at different times and places, sustained public mass media: direct payment for content, payment for advertising and state subsidy.

Forget media diversity in the fast broadband world. The new model for local media is top-down and centrally controlled.