Editorial: Media International Australia

By the time this issue of MIA lands on your desk, the regulatory landscape for the

media in Australia will (possibly) be about to change. In late February, the Review of

the National Classification System will have emerged, just ahead of the final version of

the Convergence Review in late March, which (apparently) will also take on board the

findings of the Independent Media Review with its remit to consider current journalistic

codes of practice in Australia to be released in late February. There has been a whole lot

of reviewing going on. And not before time, given the rapidity with which new media

forms and platforms have evolved and the ways in which these make a nonsense of the

current regulatory frameworks that have failed to keep pace.