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Matthew Ricketson

Matthew Ricketson is professor of journalism at the University of Canberra and a former Media and Communications editor for the Age.

Works By Matthew Ricketson

How To Scuttle A Public Broadcaster
The ABC may not anymore be in the immediate peril that the BBC is, but the danger remains broadly the same. If we want to save the ABC from that danger, then taking it for granted will no longer be an option.
30 Oct. 2022
Strengths and defects: Triumph and Demise & Power Failure
It is widely agreed in the journalistic accounts, the emerging academic studies, and the various politicians’ memoirs that the Rudd and Gillard governments had serious flaws and that their disunity killed any momentum and obscured their achievemen...
12 Feb. 2015
Inexorably winnowed: Fairfax: The Rise and Fall & Killing Fairfax
There is a pungent irony in the publication of these two books about the declining fortunes of the Fairfax Media company written by two of its most experienced and respected journalists. Media companies matter and journalism matters, but it is ent...
19 Nov. 2013
Parallel fates
It is conventional wisdom in the publishing business that newspaper reviews, even negative ones, can help to sell books. But while book publishers are beset by structural changes to their industry ... the newspaper business is suffering an even mo...
21 Feb. 2013