Dates and Times
11 June 2021
13:30 - 14:30
Event for
Location
Address: Zoom
Organiser
News & Media Research Centre
Speakers
David Nolan, Kieran McGuinness, Kerry McCallum & Conal Hanna
Event about:
N&MRC Report Launch: Covering COVID-19: How Australian media reported the coronavirus pandemic in 2020
The News and Media Research Centre will be launching the Covering COVID-19: How Australian media reported the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 by David Nolan, Kieran McGuinness, Kerry McCallum and Conal Hanna.
Date: Friday 11 June 2021
Time: 1:30pm-2:30pm
Location: Zoom
Presenters
Dr David Nolan, Dr Kieran McGuinness, Professor Kerry McCallum and Mr Conal Hanna.
Title
Covering COVID-19: How Australian media reported the coronavirus pandemic in 2020
Summary
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 not only presented a major health, social and economic crisis, but also represented a news event that dominated media coverage on an unprecedented scale. This launch presents the findings of ‘Covering COVID: How Australian media reported the coronavirus pandemic in 2020’, a report that provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of Australian news coverage in 2020 through a large-scale content analysis of over 9 million news items and around 2.5 million unique items (excluding syndications) published across print, broadcast and online media. Findings provide a broad picture of how Australian news organisations reported the COVID-19 story, as well as presenting a picture of how COVID-19 coverage developed and changed over the course of the year.
Schedule
13:30-14:00: Launch of the Covering COVID-19: How Australian media reported the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 report.
14:00-14:30: Discussions & Q&A
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