Another interesting new media story from the Courier-Mail’s David Earley, who writes: “THE Israeli government escalated its PR war this morning when it held a world first “Citizens’ Press Conference” about the Gaza incursion, inviting the world to ask questions on social networking site Twitter. Even before its scheduled start time questions were being asked [...]

The Internet has now overtaken all media except television as a source of news, according to a study by the Pew Research Centre in the United States. The study found that 40 percent of people got most of their news from the internet, up from just 24 per cent in September 2007. More people say [...]

On December 19 near Kings Cross in Sydney a man was detained and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act. How do we know? Not thanks to the mainstream media, but because of Twitter and the blogosphere, including young media workers who are below the radar of most mainstream journalists. The person who was threatened, [...]

Back to blogging after a few days’ break, and something to chew on for the new year. A few weeks ago I asked the ABC if it would release the figures on Radio National podcasting and broadcast audience numbers. Sometimes you ask and you get. The ABC has released  these figures. So far as I [...]

Inside Story, a new publication on which I have blogged before, has an interesting article by Sally Young, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, on changing habits in consuming news.* I disagree with elements of Young’s essentialy pessimistic analysis. She says:”Even though we are spending more time with media today, [...]

As he prepares to leave for Doha and his new post, Max Uechtritz sent me some thoughts on how technology is developing and what this means for the ways we think about content – and what it may mean for Fairfax. He writes: “Thought I’d just let you you can actually watch AlJazeera English in [...]

It’s been a week for banging on in conventional ain’t it awful ways about our major newspaper companies, and while all this is indeed cause for concern and must be documented, it gets my goat, because I don’t really feel gloomy at all about the future of media. While I know we are going through [...]

“It won’t work. There it is. Flat out. It won’t work.” Nor should it be allowed to work, because it’s dangerous. So says a friend of mine, David Wright, with a strong interest in the internet filtering legislation presently being planned by Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy. David Wright spends a lot of his time [...]

The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s annual communications report is out, and as usual is full of meaty statistics on the uses of communications technology. And the stats make it ludicrous to suggest that journalists can afford to ignore phenomena like social networking and blogging. Here are a few facts to mull over: Eighty nine [...]