News media
Guide
Reporting on persons with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics: advisory guideline
This advisory guideline, for reporting on people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics, is intended to help publishers and journalists.
Report
State of public trust in local news
The findings in this study present a dilemma for local news. The data suggest that moving into more aggressive coverage of social and political issues could further polarise views — and possibly lead to an erosion of trust. However, these are not issues that local news organizations can abandon without abdicating some of their mandate...
Article
The Morrison playbook
The prime minister’s style has proved effective so far, but does it contain the seeds of its own failure?
Policy report
Mind your tongue
As Australia is compelled to engage with a more confrontational China, there’s a risk that political commentary and media reporting on Chinese influence and interference operations in Australia could affect Chinese-Australian communities adversely. This briefing paper offers some constructive suggestions to address the issue.
Journal article
Talking about a nanny nation: investigating the rhetoric framing public health debates in Australian news media
This study aims to analyse the use of ‘nanny state’ frames in Australian news media coverage; identify the stakeholders invoking this frame; determine which public health–related policies attract such framing; and investigate whether ‘nanny state’ framing is directly challenged in news coverage.