Media literacy is the ability to access, analyse, critically evaluate, and produce communication in a variety of forms. More.

New Media Literacy
Public relations and image management has become a bigger industry than journalism itself. There are more spin doctors than there are journalists and they are often paid much more than journalists. More.

DOES anybody actually read any more - in the sense of taking pleasure in turning the pages of a printed object, as opposed to scanning a computer screen? Explore Australia's print media reading habits. More.

JOHN B. FAIRFAX, the second largest shareholder in Fairfax Media, publisher of the Herald, has argued that savings forced on publishers by the global financial crisis will not harm quality journalism but "force mediocrity to retire to the bench, leaving the best players to operate for the occasion". More.

Room with a view took on a whole new meaning when television infiltrated Australian lounge rooms and lifestyles in the 1950s. Joanne McCarthy looks at what was on the box back then and why we're tending to switch off now. More.

 

What you watch on the box betrays your class, says the advertising industry.  More

The pundits are propounding a theory that Australians have started cocooning again - retreating into their castles and pulling up the drawbridge. More.

The internet has topped television, radio and newspaper consumption for the second year running, according to the latest survey by Nielsen Online. More.