<p>In recent years, the Australian media have come under fire for their reporting of politics and election campaigns. Political reporting is said to be too influenced by commercial concerns, too obsessed with gossip and scandal, and too focused on trivia and 'sound bites' at the expense of serious issues. There are accusations of bias, sensationalism, 'lazy' journalism and 'horse-race' reporting that is obsessed with opinion polls. How Australia Decides is the first book to put these allegations to the test. Based on a four-year empirical study, Sally Young reports the results of the only systematic, historical and in-depth analysis of Australian election reporting. This groundbreaking book shows how election reporting has changed over time, and how political news audiences, news production and shifts in political campaigning are influencing media content - with profound implications for Australian democracy.</p>

How Australia Decides: Election Reporting and the Media

Politics & Social Sciences

Young, Sally

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

<i>Shooting The Picture i</i>s the story of Australian press photography from 1888 to today—the power of the medium, seismic changes in the newspaper industry, and photographers who were often more colourful than their subjects. This groundbreaking book explores our political leaders and campaigns, crime, war and censorship, international events, disasters and trauma, sport, celebrity, gender, race and migration. It maps the technological evolution in the industry from the dark room to digital, from picturegram machines to iPhones, and from the death knock to the ascendancy of social media. It raises the question whether these changes will spell the end of traditional press photography as we know it.

Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia

Arts & Photography

Anderson, Fay

Photography & Video

Melbourne University Press

<p><div>Before newspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force. This magisterial book reveals who owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield political power. A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, it explains how Australia's media system came to be dominated by a handful of empires and powerful family dynasties. The book begins in 1803 with Australia's first newspaper owner--a convict who became a wealthy bank owner. Throughout the 20th century, Australians were unaware that they were reading newspapers owned by failed land boomers, powerful mining magnates, gangsters, bankers, and corporate titans.</div></p>

Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia's newspaper empires

History

Australia & Oceania

NewSouth

Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

University of New South Wales Press

This is a timely book for the election campaign. And, the first book devoted to Australian political advertising - a hot topic at the moment. Author Sally Young charts how political advertising has changed over time and assesses what impact this has on the nature of Australian democracy. Australian politicians are obsessed with advertising. They spend over $30 million on advertising during federal elections and over $160 million per year when in government. Taxpayers pay for this advertising, they are bombarded by it during elections and yet most know very little about how it works. This is the first book devoted to Australian political advertising. It charts how political advertising has changed over time and assesses what impact this has had on the nature of Australian democracy.  This book captures the intensity and colour of election campaigns from the important post-war election of 1949 to the most recent federal election in 2001.  Many Australians suspect that politicians try to manipulate them through spin, PR and advertising - this book explains how. It reveals the strategies and techniques that politicians use to try to win over voters. It argues that these techniques pose a real danger to the quality of Australian democracy.

The Persuaders: Inside the Hidden Machine of Political Advertising

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Pluto Press Australia

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