Superheroes have turned digital as the Apple craze take classic comic books to the next level. Melissa Wilkinson reports.

Consumers are wising up as skeptical clouds shroud the advertising industry. Stephanie Whitelock investigates. Image: Martin Addison

The internet was once hailed as the place where independent media could flourish. But after six years, New Matilda has run out of money and been forced to close its doors.

The world’s ballooning population will make participatory government initiatives absolutely necessary in the future, said experts at the CeBit Conference in Sydney. Alice Downey reports.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has rejected requests by cinemas to be exempt from providing captioned and audio described films to patrons.

Advertisements are becoming all pervasive in our lives today as advertisers find new ways to integrate them into our daily routines. But do they actually work? Eugenia Lee investigates the value of advertising and how it is evolving.

It started as a joke when in 1995, a Manhattan psychiatrist named Ivan Goldberg coined something called Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), Steve Corner writes.

Fijian journalists and newspapers face fines and jail terms from the interim Government’s new draft media decree. Jennifer Lush reports.

With advertising revenue falling, journalists are looking to new models of funding journalism, Nick Evershed reports.

AAP boss Bruce Davidson tells Nick Evershed how his agency will thrive as newspapers rely on his journalists for straight news reporting.