Manitoba Press Council

Media junkies should check out the Australian Press Council’s State of the News Print Media in Australia Report 2006. The study was assembled by Australian J-school academics and industry members of the press council.

Newspapers in Australia, like Canada, are changing rapidly.

The report noted five major trends in Australia:

1. Newspaper companies are rapidly transforming into multi-media companies.
2. There are major changes in the role and expectation of journalists
3. There is a blurring of fact and opinion
4. Proposed changes in media ownership laws will not establish or preserve diversity of ownership of Australian newspapers
5. The capacity of the press to inform the public is being eroded through administrative and legal curbs

Does any of this sound familiar?

On the issue of press credibility, the report notes “the majority of Australians do not trust newspaper journalists (63 per cent), talk-back radio hosts (57 per cent) and TV reporters (53 per cent) to tell the truth.” To read the report in detail, go to:

http://www.presscouncil.org.au/snpma/snpma_index.html

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