Digital platforms and Australian news media: Report

This report identifies the growing uptake in recent years of internet-distributed news which has given rise to movement away from a concentrated oligopoly of news providers in Australia. This is a strongly consumer-led development, with consumers increasingly attracted to the capacity to share, comment on and recirculate news through digital platforms.This report focuses on the: (a) benefits of internet distribution of news for consumers; (b) benefits of internet distribution of news for advertisers; (c) benefits of digital platforms for journalists and news publishers; and (d) increasing level of competition in the provision of news that has occurred in the past few years, and the steps taken by the news industry to remain competitive in the digital age