Press corp crisis and tech reg crunch

This week’s newsletter, with its mix of journalism and platform regulation issues, comes just as Arts Minister Tony Burke announces the government will introduce a bill to Parliament imposing Australian content expenditure obligations on major streaming platforms. This regulation has been a long time in the making. We’ll look at it more closely in our next edition. For now, here’s what we cover in this issue.

• I look at what’s left of the Pentagon press corps in the US and its link to the media scene in Australia.
• Sacha considers some recent high profile regulatory action against digital platforms, including Amazon’s US$2.5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission for failing to disclose to customers they were being signed up for the Prime streaming service.
• I then give an outline of our submission this week to the review of the Australian Code of Practice on Misinformation and Disinformation, including a proposal to remove misinformation from the scope of the code.
• Alexia tells you about our recent podcast ep with Noelle Martin on image-based sexual abuse, and flags our upcoming event, "Can News Survive AI?"

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