Columns & opinion

Dietmar Schantin: Media companies must move to digital business model to override current crisis

Aug 04, 2020 at 02:47 am by Staff

Newsrooms were never a place to work if you wanted to get rich. But with layoffs and closings in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, we are facing another story entirely. In.... Read More

Robert Whitehead: New Australian code of conduct locks in payments from Big Tech for content

Aug 04, 2020 at 01:01 am by Staff

Australia's code of conduct to force platforms to fairly pay publishers for content has just become a big global deal for two reasons: The platforms will have no choice but t.... Read More

Phil Jarratt: Click-bait and social media issues as only some of shamed are pictured

Aug 03, 2020 at 09:36 pm by Staff

At the beginning of July a local media organisation 'named and shamed' four people who had recently been convicted in my local Noosa magistrates court of various charges relat.... Read More

Wayne Knowles: How SCMP's new edition, campaign build meaningful news media brand in Asia

Jul 28, 2020 at 07:19 pm by Staff

Information is everywhere. By 2018, 33 per cent of the global population had a smartphone, with Asia Pacific making up 35 per cent of this total. This percentage represents so.... Read More

Peter Coleman: New report to look at other countries' news business models

Jun 22, 2020 at 02:44 am by Staff

What now, if post-COVID advertising revenue doesn't climb back up the cliff off which it's fallen, and Australia fails to force Google and Facebook to chip in what publishers.... Read More