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17.01.2022 We announced today that our Australian Newsroom Mapping Project (ANMP) will be expanded to include The Full Picture, a comprehensive database of Australia's newsrooms across all states and territories. Our chief executive Anna Draffin says this information currently did not exist anywhere in Australia, including with the regulator. "This is a hugely important piece of the puzzle in developing effective and comprehensive public policy that will support public interest journalism moving forward," Draffin said. Read more about the ANMP, as well as the news Mannifera has joined our growing list of supporters here -> https://bit.ly/3ptApkx

15.01.2022 Nine Entertainment said in a regulatory filing to the Australian Securities Exchange it had signed a three-year deal with #Facebook and a five-year deal with #Google covering payment for its news content on the two digital platforms. Read the full statement here -> https://bit.ly/34GhBoh (pdf)

12.01.2022 Guardian Australia was close to signing an agreement with #Facebook covering payment for its news content on the digital platform, the Australian Financial Review reported, citing an unnamed industry source. The licensing agreement covered Guardian Australia's content on the Facebook News product, the report said. Read the AFR story here -> https://bit.ly/2S6OXub

09.01.2022 In National Reconciliation Week, University of South Australia senior lecturer in journalism Bonita Mason writes in The Conversation about the role Australia's news media plays in reporting on indigenous deaths in custody and calls on journalists to continue to cover the this important issue. Read the full article here -> https://bit.ly/3z4Ilx4

08.01.2022 An interesting look at how people across eight countries have been getting their news and information on #COVID-19 from the University of Oxford Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. One of the findings was that trust in news organisations had fallen by an average of eight percentage points from April 2020 to April 2021, while trust in national governments fell by an average of 13 percentage points. Read the report here -> https://bit.ly/3wSAUam

07.01.2022 An interesting report from France, where the government has announced plans to set up a new agency to combat foreign disinformation and fake news. Read the full story by the AFP News Agency on the Yahoo website here -> https://yhoo.it/3pANJDE