Margaret Simons on Media

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ABC Opens its Archives – Slowly

January 5, 2009 – 12:52 pm

The richest repository of cultural material in the country would have to be the ABC – so it is exciting and maybe even alarming to hear that Auntie is experimenting with the idea of opening up its archives so that members of the public can access and even re-use and remix the material.
The experiment is [...]

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What We Need to Learn from Talk-Back Radio Demigods

December 15, 2008 – 1:40 am

I was talking to a colleague last week about whether radio will survive the technological media revolution, and in what form.
My take was that talk radio, particularly talk-back radio, will do well. Music radio will die, and indeed is already dead for most people under thirty. Long-form talk and documentary will have a bright future, [...]

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