The Centre for Media Transition investigates three key areas of media evolution and transition: journalism and industry best practice; new business models; and regulatory adaptation. This review explores current attitudes to news, changing consumption patterns and consumer concerns about impartiality and commercial influence in news in Australia.

In this report, UTS Centre for Media Transition researcher, Jacqui Park, maps the media start-up and innovation eco-system in Australia, New Zealand and the broader Asia Region.

The Centre for Media Transition’s regional news project started in late November 2017 and since then, the state of regional news media has become a more pressing issue.

Regional and local media - always exposed to the vagaries of direct and indirect economic activity, population drift to larger centres and the cost/supply challenges in transport and infrastructure associated with remoteness and modest market size - is experiencing digital disruption on a greater and more sustained scale in proportion to ‘mainstream’ city-based media.

Australians have a trust issue with journalists. So researchers wanted to know: would audiences be more willing to trust if news media acted more like a friend? In May 2018, the Centre for Media Transition held four workshops in Sydney and Tamworth to ask Australians about their relationship with news media. The focus was on...