APC announces new structure and funding

Tim Burrowes

April 5, 2012 3:31

The Australian Press Council has pressed on with an announcement of greater funding and a beefed up structure a day after Seven West Media, owner of The West Australian and Pacific Magazines, withdrew.

The APC announced that funding would rise from $0.8 million this year to $1.6m in 2012-13 and $1.8m in the following year.

Member companies would also be obliged to commit to the body for four years to ensure that those unhappy with a particular decision could not easily walk out.

Seven West Media has declined to discuss why it has withdrawn from the industry body, although it has been widely speculated that the organisation was unhappy with decisions by the APC that went against it.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.