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The News Now

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‘The News Now’ from the News & Media Research Centre and UCFM is a 7-part series hosted by Dr Caroline Fisher discussing the latest issues and trends in news consumption and attitudes from the Digital News Report: Australia 2024 with researchers and industry experts.

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News and Media Research Centre

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Latest episode

Jun 16, 2025

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Episodes

In Conversation: Social Media and the News 16.06.2025
Episode 7: Global News Consumption Trends 16.06.2024

In this seventh and final episode Dr Caroline Fisher chats with Dr Richard Fletcher the lead researcher of the global digital news report project that is produced at the Reuters Institute for the Study of journalism at the University of Oxford about the beginnings of the study, the growth of the study and what has happened in the past 10 years. Find out more about the Digital News Report Australia...

Episode 6: Social Media News 16.06.2024

Where do you consume your news? In this episode Dr Caroline Fisher chats with founder and editor of Zee Feed, Crystal Andrews about where consumers are consuming news, the changing nature of news consumption among Gen Z and the growing interest in independent media. Find out more about the Digital News Report Australia 2024 here: www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/digital-n...

Episode 5: Gender and the News 16.06.2024

Gender and the news. In this fifth episode Dr Caroline Fisher chats with Dr Jee Young Lee one of DNR: Australia’s Co-Authors and Ginger Gorman award winning journalist and author and editor of Broad Agenda about the gap between women and men in news consumption particularly among younger audiences and why news avoidance is particularly high amongst women. Find out more about the Digital News Repor...

Episode 4: Making News Pay 16.06.2024

Do you pay for news? Will you pay for news? In this episode Dr Caroline Fisher chats with the CEO of Private Media Will Hayward about the challenges of making news financially sustainable. Find out more about the Digital News Report Australia 2024 here: www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/digital-news-report-australia

Episode 3: Gen Z’s News Moment 16.06.2024

In this episode, Dr Caroline Fisher chats with Tim Duggan from the Digital Publishers Alliance about Gen Z’s news moment and the threats facing digital news outlets. Find out more about the Digital News Report Australia 2024 here: www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/digital-news-report-australia

Episode 2: Audience Attitudes to AI and News 16.06.2024

AI and news, in this episode Dr Caroline Fisher chats with the Digital News Report: Australia’s main number cruncher Dr Kieran McGuiness about people’s perceptions of AI and how comfortable they about it being used to produce news. Find out more about the Digital News Report Australia 2024 here: www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/digital-news-report-australia

Episode 1: Top Trends in Australian News Consumption  16.06.2024

In this first episode Dr Caroline Fisher chats with the Digital News Report: Australia's lead author Professor Sora Park and Co-Author Dr Kieran McGuiness about how the research is conducted and what trends have emerged over the past 10 years, including unexpected ones. Find out more about the Digital News Report Australia 2024 here: www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/nmrc/digit...

Series Trailer 07.06.2024

‘The News Now’ from the News & Media Research Centre and UCFM is a 7-part series hosted by Dr Caroline Fisher discussing the latest issues and trends in news consumption and attitudes from the Digital News Report: Australia 2024 with researchers and industry experts.

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