Links

This site contains links to sites of interest here and overseas.

• Media regulators
• Auz newspapers and magazines
• Overseas Press Councils
• Other Overseas

A series of links to Australian websites of interest to those concerned with Australian Freedom of the Press issues is in the FoP section of the site. Existing directories include links to defamation, privacy, restrictions on press freedom sites.

Links on this page include Australian publications, other media regulatory bodies and overseas Press Councils.

Australian media (self-)regulatory bodies

The newly established Australian Communications and Media Authority
deals with complaints about the traditional electronic media (radio and television) and on-line services provided over the Internet.

Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance
deals with complaints about individual journalists. There is a Judiciary Committee in each state which hear such complaints.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
takes complaints about its own programs.

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Australian Newspapers and Magazines

Australian News Network
is the site for News Limited's main Australian newspapers, including the national masthead, The Australian.

The John Fairfax Publishing main website is the f2 site. Individual newspapers can be found at:

• The Sydney Morning Herald
  
• The Australian Financial Review
  
• The Age, Melbourne
  
• The Illawarra Mercury
  
• The Newcastle Herald
  
• Fairfax Community Newspapers
  

Other publishers of metropolitan newspapers include:

The West Australian is now online.

The Canberra Times, the metropolitan newspaper of Australia's capital city.

The largest publishers of regional and country newspapers are:

APN News & Media newspaper sites

Rural Press

The largest magazine publishers:

ACP Magazines

Pacific Magazines

Australian Associated Press is Australia's electronic news service, which used to host the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association (PANPA).

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Overseas Press Councils and similar bodies

www.presscouncils.org, a new website dedicated to press councils and other media accountability systems. Set up under the aegis of the Alliance of Independent Press Councils of Europe (AIPCE), established by the British PCC and managed by Professor Claude-Jean Bertrand.

The site offers PCs a way to stay in contact; is an information source on PCs (including codes of ethics and contact details of PCs and writings about press ethics). You can link to PCs around the world through the site. many have their own websites, including ones we already know about:

The Press Complaints Commission in the UK.

The New Zealand Press Council.

The Alberta Press Council is one of the Canadian provincial councils.

The Ontario Press Council is another.

The Conseil de presse du Quebec a third.

The Minnesota Press Council is one of the three local press councils surviving in the US.

The Washington News Council is a second, and a more recent addition.

And, on the continent of Europe:

Deutschepresserat (Germany).

Julkisen Sanan Neuvo (Finland).

Raad voor de journalistek (Netherlands).

Conseil de la presse de la federation suisse des journalistes (Switzerland).

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Other overseas press organisations

Commonwealth Press Union, deals with press matters, including training and press freedom issues, within the British Commonwealth of Nations. Has been working with the UK PCC on press self-regulation issues.

Pacific Journalism Online at the University of the South Pacific provides a wealth of information on media, education and press freedom issues in the Oceania region.

Media Channel is a new world-wide media resource. The Council is an affiliated organisation.

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