%0 Journal Article
%T Watchdogs or Masters? The changing role of the Canberra Press Gallery
%A Margaret Simons
%A Philip Chubb
%A Stephanie Brookes
%J Media International Australia
%@ 2200-467X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1329878X18767424
%X This Special Issue tackles increasing urgent questions about the role and performance of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, a unique and valuable institution central to Australian political journalism. These questions about the Press Gallery¡¯s contribution to political life include: how might we understand the changing authority and effectiveness of the Press Gallery? Has Australia entered an era when media failures are damaging the country¡¯s ability to affect reform? Are we witnessing a twin assault on the quality of Australian democracy from politicians and the media? The articles gathered here offer a variety of tools and perspectives useful for thought and action in this moment in history ¨C when political reporting is fundamentally disrupted, and with it the democratic forms that have grown up in lockstep with mass media. They chart changes and longer-term trends, and particularise broader shifts in political journalism and communication, providing both information and theoretically engaged analysis
%K Canberra
%K Gallery
%K journalist
%K practice
%K Press
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1329878X18767424