Is the news you’re reading the work of a journalist … or a PR agent?
Crikey and the Australian Centre of Independent Journalism (ACIJ) at the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney recently teamed up to find out, analysing over 2,000 articles in 10 top Australian newspapers.
Subscribers can read the full results in the dedicated Spinning the Media section of the Crikey website.
And now we have all of our Key Findings in one handy ebook. Download it here.

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