In November 2019, the Centre for International Economics prepared a report for the Public Interest Journalism Initiative looking at the idea of a tax concession for public interest journalism. This update report uses February 2024 survey data to provide updated estimates of willingness to pay, as well as updated estimates of the benefits and costs...

This is a report of results of a survey commissioned by the Public Interest Journalism Initiative from Essential Media. Essential Media conduct a fortnightly omnibus survey, in which five questions relating to public interest journalism were included. This survey was conducted online from 7-11 February 2024, and had 1149 respondents (95 per cent certainty for...

This report summarises news content sampling undertaken in 2023. It includes the results of two new studies - a comparative sample of news production in the Eyre Peninsula, conducted in February and November 2023, and a study of court reporting conducted across regional New South Wales.

How politicians talk about and news media report on Australia’s democracy affects how people think about, feel towards, and engage with democracy in their day-to-day lives. This report presents the findings of a quantitative analysis of discourses around democracy in parliamentary speeches and news media articles in Australia.

Studies suggest that a significant number of adults aged 55 years and older are online and that they may be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of false and misleading information. To explore this topic, the authors of this report conducted a survey of nearly 1,000 adults aged 55 years and older from across the United...