The News Now

The News Now

‘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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June 16, 2025
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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.

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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-res...

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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.

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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

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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

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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-rep...

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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...

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June 6, 2024 55 secs

‘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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