Press Council pushes on with regulating online media

Tim Burrowes

May 24, 2012 4:03

Four new publishers including Mumbrella’s parent company Focal Attractions, have been accepted as members of the voluntary media regulation body the Australian Press Council.

Along with Focal, which also publishes Encore magazine, the new APC members are:

Private Media, which publishes Crikey, Power Index, Smart Company, StartUp Smart, Property Observer and LeadingCompany.
Workday Media, which publishes Banking Day and The Bank Investor.
Urban Cinefile

Meanwhile, ninemsn is in talks to join.

The move comes at a time when the industry is facing new challenges to its freedom to self regulate. Both the Finkelstein independent media inquiry and the medica convergence review have made recommendations that would change regulation of the press. Media minister Stephen Conroy is yet to respond to the recommendations.

Next month’s Mumbrella360 includes a session on media regulation featuring News Limited’s group editorial director Campbell Reid, Sydney Morning Herald publisher and editor-in-chief Peter Fray, Finkelstein inquiry advisor Matthew Ricketson and APC chair Julian Disney.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.