Response to News Media Assistance Program Consultation Paper

Abstract

This response to the News Media Assistance Program Consultation Paper has been co-authored by Professor Terry Flew, Dr. Agata Stepnik, Ms. Wenjia Tang (all of Media and Communications, The University of Sydney), and Dr. Timothy Koskie (Centre for Media Transition, University of technology, Sydney).

The authors have been engaged with the future of news media on the basis of their research on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery-Project titled Valuing News: Aligning Individual, Institutional and Societal Perspectives (DP220100589), funded from 2022 to 2024. We thank the ARC for their support with this research.

Other members of the Valuing News research team are: Professor Sora Park (News and Media Research Centre, University of Canberra), Professor Derek Wilding (Co-director, Centre for Media Transition, University of technology, Sydney), Associate Professor Caroline Fisher (News and Media Research Centre, University of Canberra), Associate Professor Timothy Dwyer (The University of Sydney), and Dr. Aljosha Karim Schapals (Queensland University of Technology).

In this submission we have chosen to focus primarily upon the “Potential Measures” section of the Consultation Paper, as this raises issues of direct relevance to the work we have undertaken in the Valuing News report.