Double Take

A special Double Take episode on the Digital News Report, focusing on Australian findings. This year's report highlights the upswing in news consumption among younger audiences and their reliance on influencers and social media to access news. Many under 25s have never used traditional sources like newspapers or radio, even as interest in politics grows among under 35s.DNR researcher and Adjunct Professor, Dr Caroline Fisher joins Monica Attard, CMT Co-Director to discuss why influencers are becoming the new opinionista's in the digital news landscape.

Derek Wilding speaks with an expert panel on alternatives to the News Media Bargaining Code at a time when it's becoming increasingly difficult to get platforms to the table.

A little taster of the new year's first episode of Double Take - Media Watch's Paul Barry and former CEO of the MEAA Creina Chapman debate the state of news media in Australia and who should regulate it.

In this episode of Double Take, Monica speaks with Fintan O’Toole, an Irish Times columnist, advising editor at New York Review of Books, and winner of the European Press Prize, Orwell Prize and the Robert Silvers Prize. Fintan has bracing views on how the media covered the U.S. election, and how changes in the media landscape have paved the way for monumental shifts in US politics. Notably, the recent election of Donald Trump – again!

In August this year, the CMT brought together a group of editors from India, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines to exchange information on the problems each are experiencing in combatting mis- and disinformation. In this episode of Double Take, our regional consultant and expert on South Asian media Kean Wong asks what the Indian editors took away from the forum, and what lay ahead for them and the media industry in their country. Links to featured news publications below: Scroll - https://scroll.in The Wire - https://thewire.in Article 14 - https://article-14.com The News Minute - https://www.thenewsminute.com

Early next year, Australia’s world-first news media bargaining turns 3, meaning that many of the deals Google and Meta have done with Australian news media businesses are about to expire. Worth well over $200m annually, these deals have prompted a host of other jurisdictions to follow suit. Yet critics argue the code is flawed, unfair and lacks transparency. CMT's Sacha Molitorisz speaks with ex-ACCC chair Rod Sims, Columbia journalism scholar Anya Schiffrin, and author and consultant Hal Crawford about the code and its impact, three years on and beyond.