Senate Committee to investigate the future of journalism

May 10, 2017 4:06

Following the week-long Fairfax journalist strike over mass redundancies which severely hampered the publisher’s coverage of the Federal Budget a Senate select committee will launch an inquiry into the future of journalism.

The motion, moved by Senators Sam Dastyari, Scott Ludlam, Nick Xenophon and Jacquie Lambie will see the select committee look into the current state of public interest journalism in Australia.

Along with a broad range of issues facing the future of journalism, the inquiry will look specifically at the adequacy of competition and consumer laws in dealing with the “market power and practices of search engines, social media aggregators and content aggregators, and their impact on the Australian media landscape”.

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Simon Canning

Simon Canning was Mumbrella's marketing and advertising editor from 2015-2017. In a career spanning journalism and communications over more than 30 years Simon has become one of Australia’s most respected analysts and commentators on the advertising, marketing and media industries. A regular commentator on radio and TV, Simon has also worked in media in the US and UK .

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1 COMMENTS

Forecast 10 May 17

Eric Beecher will again pitch his idea for the public to pay. (Eric, of course, will volunteer to spend our money.) Various pundits from universities, most of them people who weren’t much good at journalism, will speculate. Lots of people will go on about classifieds and Google. Dastyari will hug lots of reporters. No one will say that our news media have become obsessed with their own celebrity and have no idea what the public will pay for.
Everyone will boo at Murdoch. (Except his enormous staff, and Tony Abbott.)

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