Communications
Is media to blame for confusion surrounding climate change?
Climate change is the “hot topic” in media, but there’s still some confusion in the general public about the issue.......
Seven’s Deadly Sins
Channel seven’s decision to pull the Get Up! freedom for Tibet advert during the Olympic Opening Ceremony last Friday night......
China clamps down on press freedom
With eight days to go before the start of the Beijing Olympics, controversy continues to plague this celebrated event. The......
Baz Luhrmann’s Australian tourism campaign
Film director Baz Luhrmann will be in charge of the new fifty million dollar Australian tourism campaign, which starts in......
A new literary genre – Indigenous chicklit
Academic and activist Anita Heiss’s recent two books are quite a departure from her more serious publications on racism and......
The lights go out in the Big Brother house
Big Brother will hold it’s last eviction tonight, forever. Channel Ten has decided to dump the program after plummeting ratings.......
Journalists resist Pakistani censorship
Syed Javid Nazir was a newspaper editor during the period of heavy controls on media in Pakistan, under military rule,......
Hong Kong public broadcasting under threat
Hong Kong’s only public service broadcaster, RTHK, is under threat of closure by the Chinese government. A review committee investigating......
A bright future for the Australian film industry
This week we see the introduction of ‘Screen Australia’, the new major funding body for the Australian film industry, replacing......
Fair trial -v- free media
They may not have been vigilanties wielding flaming torches – but neighbours holding placards and chanting have been successful in......