Article
Quality/control: a new system for ethical media
Ellie Rennie would like to make the right decisions when it comes to media distribution and use, but some things just don't add up.
Journal article
Community media in the prosumer era
How is media convergence impacting on established, ‘broadcast-era’ community media? This paper takes SYN (a community radio licensee in Melbourne) as a case study and employs media ethnography and policy analysis to identify contemporary challenges facing community media.
Survey Report
Community media and industry training survey results
This online survey of 351 media industry employees from across all media sectors provides a snapshot of educational qualifications, voluntary/work experience history and other factors which assisted media industry employees to make the transition to paid employment. The survey reveals that community media contributes substantially to the media industries, providing training and networks which lead...
Article
The impact of the intervention on NT Indigenous broadcasting
The new chair of the Australian Indigenous Communications Association, Jim Remedio, warns that the NT intervention is undermining Indigenous broadcasting, writes Ellie Rennie.
Article
Creating a commons on the airwaves
The Open Spectrum movement sees a future in which the community can directly access the airwaves, writes Ellie Rennie.