For all its faults, it’s a miracle that it exists. But it could be a whole lot better, writes Rodney Tiffen on our partner website, INSIDE STORY.

TWO NAMES have been doing the rounds as the global newspaper business casts around for knights in shining armour to save them from an uncertain future. The first is Alexander Lebedev, the former KGB agent who recently bought London's Evening Standard newspaper from the Daily Mail & General Trust for the princely sum of $1...

Murdoch's Australian papers covered the election with an eye to the likely post-poll climate, writes Rodney Tiffen.

Introduction A creeping authoritarianism and a pronounced lack of diversity are making their impact felt on Australia’s already fragile media landscape. Despite Australia’s traditions of freedom and its status as a long-time liberal democracy, its ranking in terms of press freedom has fallen below that of many newer democracies. In an international survey by Freedom...

This research brief considers the American experience of ownership deregulation from 1996 to the beginning of 2007 and makes comparisons with the Australian media landscape. It discusses whether differences in media traditions between the countries, including an entrenched public broadcaster culture, could deliver different outcomes from deregulation.