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April 22, 2021 10:16 The Australia Press Council (APC) has expressed disappointment in the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance’s (MEAA) announcement that it intends to leave the industry body. In a statement, the APC said it is “disappointed” with the MEAA’s decision and “does not agree with all of the observations in the MEAA press release.” The APC did, however, acknowledge there is a “need for the self-regulatory regime to evolve to take account of convergence across all media platforms”, but stopped short of admitting it hadn’t evolved sufficiently in this way. ADVERT...

MEAA announces intention to withdraw from Australian Press Council April 21, 2021 12:57 Australia’s union for journalists, the MEAA (Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance), has announced its intention to withdraw from the Australian Press Council (APC). The MEAA said its decision follows feedback and consultation from members of its Media section that was overwhelmingly in favour of leaving the APC, and revealed its members believe the council has “lost credibility” and has failed to keep up with media convergence. MEAA Media federal president Marcus Strom, vice-president Karen Percy Wi...

Mathematical analysis of COVID mortality rates in the US and Europe shows that second-wave mortality was often greatly reduced - particularly in wealthier European countries and the northeast of the US.

Media companies in Australia are facing mounting calls to explicitly commit to using the money sealed through landmark deals with Google and Facebook to invest in newsrooms and journalism jobs. Following intense negotiations over the government’s media bargaining code, the country’s biggest media companies - Nine Entertainment Co (owner of this masthead), News Corp Australia, Seven West Media and Guardian Australia - have in recent weeks signed multimillion-dollar agreements for their content with Google. Seven, Private Media and Solstice Media and Schwartz Media have signed agreements wi...

Date Time Facebook and Google monies must go to newsrooms, not boardrooms Media companies negotiating commercial deals with Facebook and Google for the payment of news content must ensure that the monies generated are allocated to journalism. The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance says the deals under negotiation will provide a welcome new revenue stream for Australian media, but they will be pointless if the funds from the digital giants are not reinvested in the production of news content. The union is also calling for targeted assistance to any small, independent, regional, community or ...