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News Media Bargaining Codes and Sustainable Futures for Journalism

Three papers have now been published in the peer-reviewed journal Global Perspectives (University of California Press) arising from the 2024 International Communications Association (ICA) post-conference on News Industries: Funding Innovations and Futures. The event was held on the Gold Coast, Australia, on June 25, 2024.

The papers are:

We thank the authors for their contributions and the editors and referees for these papers.

The ICA post-conference event was part of the Valuing News Australian Research Council, Discovery Project (DP220100589) (2023-2025).

Thanks to the Media & Communications discipline at The University of Sydney, News & Media Research Centre at University of Canberra, Centre for Media Transition at University of Technology Sydney, and Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology for their support.

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