MEAA Media Room


Fair Work ends probe

August 8, 2016 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia Featured MediaRoom News Releases

MEAA understands that the Fair Work Ombudsman has completed its investigation of industrial action by employees of Fairfax Media between Thursday, 17 March 2016 and Sunday, 20 March this year.

MEAA was served with a wide-ranging Notice to Produce by the FWO on 22 April 2016. MEAA wrote to the FWO in May to assert that the Notice was too broad, lacked particularity and ...

MEAA says ACCC must protect diversity in WA media

August 4, 2016 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia Featured MediaRoom News Releases

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), the union and industry advocate for Australia’s journalists, believes the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) statement of issues has correctly highlighted serious concerns regarding the sale of News Corporation’s The Sunday Times and PerthNow digital news web site to Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media (SWM).

MEAA is pleased that the ACCC has acknowledged ...

Inaugural Balibo Five-Roger East Fellowships announced

August 1, 2016 Mark Phillips #MEAAMedia MediaRoom Releases

Four journalists from East Timor have been announced as the inaugural recipients of the Balibo Five-Roger East Fellowship, an initiative of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance and Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA.

Media access to Vic Magistrates’ Court materials

July 25, 2016 Mike Dobbie #MEAAMedia #pressfreedom MediaRoom News Submissions

MEAA letter to the Principal Registrar of the Victorian Magistrates’ Court over new guidelines for media access to materials.

 

Landmark new deal gets the green light from Aussie actors

July 12, 2016 Elizabeth Franks #MEAAEquity MediaRoom Releases

Australian performers have overwhelmingly backed a new agreement which will for the first time properly value their work on digital platforms.

The new Australian Television Repeats and Residuals Agreement (ATRRA) will come into effect today following three years of negotiations between Equity, the union for Australian performers, and Screen Producers Australia (SPA).

The immediate pay-off for performers will include a new 10% ...