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Media Files
Media Files is produced by a team of journalist/academics who have spent decades working in and reporting on the media industry. They’re passionate about sharing their understanding of the media landscape, especially how media policy, commercial manoeuvres and digital disruption are affecting th...
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Internet sabbaths and surveillance capitalism in the COVID-19 era: William Powers on what’s changed since Hamlet’s Blackberry
COVID-19 has affected our relationship with technology in many ways, from the pleasures of mass online choirs to the perils of the endless Zoom meetin...
‘Suck it and see’ or face a digital tax, former ACCC boss Allan Fels warns Google and Facebook
Have you used Google lately and been greeted by a yellow warning saying that the way Australians search on Google is under threat?
To understan...
Media Files: Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don’t want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?
Media companies around the world are in an existential funk. The tech giants - Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon - have built a better mousetrap for...
Media Files: investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer, who led the Panama Papers tax exposé
Today on Media Files, a podcast on major themes and issues in the media, we meet Bastian Obermayer, the Pulitizer prize-winning journalist who led the...
Media Files: ACCC seeks to clip wings of tech giants like Facebook and Google but international effort is required
In a landmark report, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has urged the federal government to fix the uneven market power of digital co...
Media Files: Washington Post weather editor Jason Samenow on how weather coverage is evolving – and building audience growth
When he founded the blog CapitalWeather.com 15 years ago in Washington DC, Jason Samenow was working for the US government as a climate change analyst...
Media Files: Australians’ trust in news media is falling as concern over ‘fake news’ grows
On today’s episode, we hear from Caroline Fisher, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Canberra and lead author of the 2019 Austr...
Media Files: Investigative reporter Louise Milligan on Cardinal Pell and redactions in the Royal Commission’s report
Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against child sexual assault convictions kicks off this week, but when that’s over Pell still has another reckoning to f...
Media Files: Facebook’s Mia Garlick on #Ausvotes2019 and how Australian MPs use social media
As we enter the final straight of the Australian election campaign, we ask you: how much of your information about the issues and the candidates comes...
Media Files: Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the ‘disappointing’ banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers
Today on Media Files, it’s journalism versus the big banks. We’re hearing from Adele Ferguson, the celebrated journalist who many credit as the drivin...
PODCAST: Pell trial reporters, a judge and a media lawyer on why the suppression order debate is far from over
When Judge Peter Kidd sentenced Cardinal George Pell last week, it was broadcast live on radio and television. It was a stark contrast to the precedin...
Media Files: Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian’s Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
Today we’re taking a look back at some of the biggest issues of 2018 with special guest Kath Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian.
As the medi...
Media Files: What does the future newsroom look like?
Today on Media Files, a podcast about the major themes and issues in the media, we’re looking at the future newsroom.
We often hear about the d...
Media Files: Guardian Australia’s Katharine Murphy and former MP David Feeney on the digital disruption of media and politics
Today on Media Files, a podcast about the major issues in the media, we’re taking a close look at the role of the news media in politics.
As the...
Media Files: ABC boss Michelle Guthrie sacked, but the board won’t say why
The major question following the sacking of ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie is why? Why did the ABC board move so decisively and why now?
Media Files: On the Serena Williams cartoon – and how the UK phone hacking scandal led to a media crackdown in South Africa
Mark Knight’s cartoon in The Herald Sun has become a global topic of condemnation and debate because of its negative portrayal of American tennis play...
Media Files: Spotlight’s Walter V. Robinson and the Newcastle Herald’s Chad Watson on covering clergy abuse - and the threats that followed
If you’ve seen the movie Spotlight, about the Boston Globe investigative reporters who uncovered the staggering extent of child sexual abuse in the Ca...
Media Files: What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
You don’t need to be a journalist or a news junkie to be affected by the media. Its enormous influence in shaping our culture, politics and society me...
Media Files: a new podcast from The Conversation
No matter what we read, watch or listen to, we’re all affected by the media and how it works. It shapes our culture, drives policy and politics, and i...