This report shows how news consumption and trust in Australia are shaped by crises and politics. Interest has rebounded, especially among young people and women. Despite high avoidance, audiences rely on trusted sources over social media and artificial intelligence. Younger users favour relatable formats and creators, challenging news organisations to adapt to evolving habits and...

This report is about the challenges facing public interest journalism in Australia and policy responses to its structural decline. It synthesises a roundtable of industry, government and academic participants, identifying priorities including platform regulation, sustainable funding and professional standards. Participants agreed addressing market failure requires evidence‑based policy focused on transparency, long‑term viability and media literacy.

This report delivers comparative data on media usage in 48 markets and across 6 continents. It tracks audience use of AI chatbots to access news and how they feel about the way AI is being used in news production. The report finds Australian news consumers are generationally and politically split in their reactions to global...

This report examines how best to provide regional media with the resources it needs to produce quality public interest journalism, and, with that journalism, to establish links to metropolitan media, so that all Australians have a sense of what the significant issues facing regional dwellers are and how they can best be tackled by policymakers.

Ageism is one of the most socially accepted forms of prejudice in Australia. This report identifies key opportunities for the media industry and age sector to improve the accuracy, quantity and quality of coverage about older Australians and the issues that affect and matter to them.