Tyson Jackson steps up as reporter for The Daily Telegraph
By Staff Writer in Media News on Tuesday, 01st October 2024 at 3:46pmTyson Jackson has officially stepped into the role of reporter at The Daily Telegraph, he announced in a LinkedIn post.
Having joined the publication in early 2022 as an editorial assistant, Tyson has quickly distinguished himself, showcasing his talent and dedication to journalism.
With a Kennedy Award for Student Journalist of the Year to his name, Jackson has quickly made his mark in sports and entertainment reporting. He is known for his commitment to quality storytelling and his ability to engage readers with impactful narratives.
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By Will McLennan in Media News on Friday, 18th July 2025 at 12:33pm
Techpartner.news has launched its new self-titled podcast, with host Ben Moore explaining it was born out of “a desire to serve the tech partner community in a new and different way under the tech partner news brand”.
Moore told Influencing, “We wanted to have these in-depth discussions with technology partners so other people in the ecosystem could learn and gain a deeper understanding about what's going on that could help inform their own practice or gain a broader understanding of the industry.
Moore added that the podcast's aim was the same as the publication’s, “which is to inform our audience”.
“The [Channel] industry is vast, a growing industry, a disparate industry, but it never stops moving. We want to ensure that we are doing our best to get the information that partners need to know within Australia and New Zealand.
“This is so that [partners and vendors] can succeed, know what's going on, and understand the movements, trends, and insights that are go
The Conversation shifts away from fact-checking to focus on pre-bunking
By Tony Bosworth in Media News on Friday, 18th July 2025 at 10:47am
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The Conversation has moved away from traditional fact-checking in favour of a more constructive approach to combating misinformation, according to editor-in-chief Misha Ketchell.
In a revealing interview on Influencing Insider, Ketchell explained why the publication closed its fact-checking department, citing concerns about the confrontational nature of fact-checking journalism.
"Fact checking is so sanctimonious at the end of the day. It's so 'I'm right and you're wrong. You got it wrong. Gotcha,'" Ketchell said.
"The difficulty with that is that it's combative and you end up sort of preaching to the choir."
Instead, The Conversation is focusing on what Ketchell calls "pre-bunking" - providing accurate information before people encounter misinformation.
"We're trying to present information in a more neutral way," he explained.
The publication maintains its commitment to academic expertise, continuing journalism's traditional role of providing expert context to new
THE BRIEF - Panda politics and a new NRL scandal
By Matt Buchanan in Media News on Friday, 18th July 2025 at 7:26am
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It’s Friday and finally sub editors around the country can start looking forward to a time when they can stop thinking exclusively in China puns. There have been some doozies — “Great Gall of China,” “Nice to Xi You,” “Any Storm in a Port” (think Darwin) — and a few wince-inducers, like The Daily Telegraph’s “PM Goes Weak at the Chinese.” Today’s entrant is “Panda Politics,” the homophone doing duty to frame the trip as indulgent, wavering, groveling — at least according to the opposition.
In The Age (“PM rejects opposition claims on China”) and The Sydney Morning Herald (“PM eyes 'rewards' of panda politics”), Paul Sakkal addresses those critiques directly. Albanese has shrugged off barbs that his stops to visit soccer coaches, a tennis centre, a really very old long wall, and a big bamboo muncher or two were self-indulgent, arguing instead that Australia will reap economic benefits from demonstrating
PMDDKY: A grand convergence or mere patchwork?
By Pragadish Kirubakaran, Pradeep Damodaran and Neeraja Gopalakrishnan in Media News on Thursday, 17th July 2025 at 3:06pm
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The government’s latest flagship agriculture push, the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (PMDDKY), has been met with a mix of optimism and cautious scrutiny in the press. At the heart of the Rs 24,000-crore-a-year initiative lies the convergence of 36 schemes from 11 ministries, targeting 100 low-performing districts–a scale not seen in any prior agri-scheme.
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The Hindu dissected the scheme’s operational vision, highlighting that committees at national, state and district levels will lead planning and execution. Notably, each District Dhan-Dhaanya Samiti will include progressive farmers and prepare plans aligned to national goals such as crop diversification, water conservation and organic farming. The inclusion of private sector partnerships was flagged as a key pillar.
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Quinn - "Important to keep up with the times" as GadgetGuy refurbishes website
By Will McLennan in Media News on Thursday, 17th July 2025 at 2:52pm
After completing a full refurbishment of the publication’s website, GadgetGuy’s Valens Quinn believes that many publishers see, “the landscape is changing about the way people consume content,” and as a result, it's “important to keep up with the times.”
“What we wanted to do with Gadget Guy was to do two things. One, it allows us to post quicker because there is an overhead to writing articles, getting all the images, and entering them into the CMS,” Quinn told Influencing.
“Two, it was to take content from all the places we invest in. We're putting a lot of effort into video and socials, and you must create content relevant to that platform.”
After the new publication’s website was soft-launched in May, Quinn said the main changes were on the homepage.
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From IKEA table to internationally respected publication - The Conversation’s journey
By Tony Bosworth in Media News on Thursday, 17th July 2025 at 1:55pm
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In the early days of The Conversation, a small team of ten journalists huddled around a single IKEA table, their phones constantly ringing as they reached out to academics across the country.
Editor-in-Chief Misha Ketchell remembers assembling that table himself with an Allen key, creating what would become the humble beginning of a groundbreaking media organisation which has now spread globally.
The initial pitch to academics seemed almost comical, Ketchell told Influencing Insider.
"We've just started, we have no audience, no money, and we can't pay you - but would you write an article in the next three hours?"
Despite numerous rejections, the team persevered, gradually building trust and understanding between the worlds of journalism and academia.
Arguably their breakthrough moment came during one of the darkest events in recent history - the Christchurch massacre. When the editor called Ketchell suggesting they wait a few weeks before covering the tragedy,
ABC podcast tops charts
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Australian Podcast Ranker for June has revealed the ABC has topped the charts with a podcast that averages just over 6000 downloads an episode.
ABC News Top Stories produced 415 episodes in June, with 2.5 million downloads between them.
With a monthly listenership of 781,067, according to Triton’s ranker, the podcast toppled Hamish and Andy from the top spot. The duo Hamish released four new episodes in June, to 776,321 listeners – and 1.5 million downloads.
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