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In a time of so-called "alternative" facts, fake news and spurious claims, it's perfect timing for the return of Fact Check to ABC news outlets, writes founding editor Russell Skelton.
Topics: media, industry, journalism, education, university-and-further-education, australia
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Slater & Gordon and Ten Network have upset investors with profit warnings, while South32 shares fell despite a return to profitability.
Topics: company-news, stockmarket, mining-industry, media, australia
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| UpdatedThe ABC's Fact Check unit is back in business as a collaboration with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, after being closed in 2016 due to budget cuts.
Topics: media, industry, education, university-and-further-education, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedThe leaking of documents on Twitter prompts Seven West Media's Jeff Kennett to engage in Twitter battle.
Topics: media, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedA former Fiji journalist has just published a study of self-censorship in the Fiji media.
Topics: print-media, media, pacific, fiji
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The courts are one of the most difficult institutions for a President of the United States to change, but Donald Trump does have some opportunities to do so, according to David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W Bush.
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, media, social-media, united-states
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| UpdatedRupert Murdoch's News Corporation posts a second quarter loss citing impairments in its Australian newspaper business as a key factor.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, media, markets, stockmarket, multinationals, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedLawyer Bruce Peters hits out at the Daily Mail over a "cut-and-paste article" that disrupted the manslaughter trial of Phillip Pama this week.
Topics: media, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, qld, brisbane-4000
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The number of older Australians embracing information technology is surging, research finds, with Skype, e-mail and apps like Instagram fast becoming vital tools to keep the elderly connected.
Topics: media, social-media, information-and-communication, australia, adelaide-5000, griffith-university-4111
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| UpdatedSeven West Media chief executive Tim Worner is cleared by a company-funded probe into allegations of misconduct related to an affair with a staff member.
Topics: media, company-news, corporate-governance, australia
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| UpdatedThe allegations of misconduct against two PNG cabinet ministers came from items published in local blog sites.
Topics: media, social-media, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Commercial fisherman Bruce Davey says the ABC's HF shortwave radio transition alternatives offer little to support remote listeners.
Topics: media, radio, radio-broadcasting, fishing-aquaculture, beef-cattle, rural-tourism, mining-rural, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800
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A commercial fisherman says the ABC's HF shortwave radio transition alternatives offer little to support remote listeners.
Topics: media, radio, radio-broadcasting, fishing-aquaculture, beef-cattle, rural-tourism, mining-rural, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800
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Topics: media, fishing-aquaculture, rural-tourism, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump offers a scattershot response to the sweeping protests against his new administration, undermining the public opposition and then defending demonstrators' rights a short time later.
Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, media, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedIn his final press conference before his term ends on Friday, President Barack Obama defends the important of a free press.
Topics: obama-barack, world-politics, media, united-states
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There are moving tributesto commemorate the contribution of two media leaders in Papua New Guinea who died within days of each other.
Topics: media, censorship, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Egypt's President will pick a chairman and members of a new media council under a law passed this week, giving the body the power to fine or suspend news outlets and revoke foreign media licences.
Topics: media, law-crime-and-justice, egypt
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| UpdatedSeven West Media WA appoints an audit partner from Ernst and Young as acting general manager and chief financial officer while CEO Chris Wharton takes long-service leave.
Topics: print-media, media, wa
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Topics: media, print-media, hamilton-3300
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Seven West Media's chief executive in WA, Chris Wharton, and at least one other senior colleague are understood to be exiting the company as part of management changes.
Topics: media, print-media, information-and-communication, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedThe media may have been the part of Fiji society most heavily affected by the coup.
Topics: media, government-and-politics, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedThe works of Australia's top political cartoonists are exhibited at Old Parliament House in Canberra — with Fairfax's Cathy Wilcox taking the top gong.
Topics: government-and-politics, journalism, media, arts-and-entertainment, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Most journalists can handle negative feedback from the public, but one US reporter was shocked to find thousands labelling him an anti-Semite and an "alt-right founder" after his appearance on CNN.
Topics: world-politics, media, race-relations, united-states
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Facebook says it is taking steps to weed out phony news articles. Can you spot the fake news?
Topics: social-media, information-and-communication, media, united-states