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Aussie news code gains global attention for all the wrong reasons

Big international names in technology have condemned Australia’s unorthodox foray into digital platform regulation on the eve of a Senate…

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Google brings cannon to gun fight

With less than a fortnight to go before the gates close on new laws governing the financial relationship between the Australian news indu…

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How James Gleick’s extraordinary book The Information relates to news stories

Originally published August, 2011, on the Share Wars blog “Information implies surprise.” One evening in 1955 American mathematician Clau…

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We Choose To Know: The Final Chapter in the Share Wars Book

A picture of a frog hitching a ride on a snake was enough to ensure viral stardom in 2011. It was what I uncovered when I went deep into the

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Why Australia’s plan to make tech giants pay for news won’t work

A couple of weeks ago the Australian government announced it was going make Facebook and Google pay for news.

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Harsh, loud, and full of conflict: The chaotic reality of the Australian media landscape

Published March 14, 2020, The Spin Off I have a strange relationship with Australian media. In some ways I’m an insider: I’ve worked in t…

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Australia’s foray into digital news fairness: Supersmart and superdoomed

An industry-wide news boycott is the only way to find out the true value of news to Google and Facebook.

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Why publish a hateful pig head video?

Published 12 May, 2019, Newshub I’m writing this to explain why Newshub ran footage of a man depositing half a pig’s head at the Al Noor …

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The problem with news in New Zealand

Published 15 August 2019, Newshub Two weeks ago it came out that TVNZ wasn’t paying a dividend to the Government this year and for “the f…

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Why naming Brenton Tarrant is the right thing to do

Published May 1, 2019, Newshub Towards the end of March, something unusual happened. At the suggestion of Radio New Zealand CEO Paul Thom…