28 March 2021 Sally Sara’s play Stop Girl is more than just a cathartic experience.She wrote it partly to exorcise the demons that...
9 December 2020 Analysis from Steve Ahern Two events this week have put a spotlight on the way the music industry business is...
14 November 2020 Jordan Shanks, better known as FriendlyJordies, is a satirist, a self taught cross media reporter and a heavy hitting political...
16 October 2020 Steve Ahern test drives the new Anchor function in Spotify. One of the big problems for personalities on music...
3 September 2020 Do you have the right mindset to survive job volatility? Steve Ahern shares his advice about resilience in media industry...
24 June 2020 During times of crisis, such as the Corona Virus pandemic, News content gains heightened awareness as listeners lean-in to hear...
14 May 2020 While Australia’s unemployment rate has jumped to 6.2 per cent in April, up from 5.2 per cent in March, radio...
4 March 2020 At this week’s ABU Digital Broadcasting Summit in Malaysia, Commercial Radio Australia CEO Joan Warner shared with Asian broadcasters the...
14 February 2020 The third Radio Festival was held in Delhi on World Radio Day 2020. Steve Ahern was there. “Radio has emerged as...
12 February 2020 Almost every Australian has a climate change story to tell from this summer holiday.Fires, smoke, power outages and now floods.We...
6 February 2020 “Right place, right time, right skills.” This week’s guest on Leroy Brown’s Airheads podcast is the former AFTRS Director of...
29 November 2019 The National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadasters Council (NEMBC) has begun its annual conference in Brisbane.Yesterday, Steve Ahern opened the Youth...
27 November 2019 Australian media executive, strategic trainer and international consultant in modern broadcast media, and the founding editor of radioinfo, Steve Ahern...
31 October 2019 In a plenary session on the future of radio at the Radio Asia conference in Bangladesh this week, Steve Ahern...
10 October 2019 The expansion of digital radio to regional areas in Australia’s vast continent is an issue that has been challenging broadcasters...
19 July 2019 This week at the Hard Rock Café, amidst the Rod Stewart jackets, Michal Jackson costumes, gold records and an autographed...
18 July 2019 With newsroom staffing and workflows changing rapidly, newsroom systems are evolving to keep pace. A range of companies displayed...
7 July 2019 Steve Ahern is in Kuala Lumpur planning Radiodays Asia. It’s been a busy week.I’m in Malaysia as part of...
29 May 2019 Analysis from Steve Ahern. Smart speakers are not quite as smart as we are led to...
12 April 2019 Thanks to smart speakers, audio documentaries are about to evolve to the next level. Newspapers are rapidly moving into...
15 March 2019 The 2019 Southern Community Media Association conference is underway this weekend in Wagga. On the conference agenda are sessions...
11 March 2019 Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) and Chairman of Commercial Radio Australia, Grant Blackley will feature as...
12 February 2019 This World Radio Day, Steve Ahern is in Delhi, India. I’m writing this year’s WRD letter just after being interviewed on...
8 February 2019 Steve Ahern examines emerging Apple Watch listening trends The latest Apple Watch version was introduced in September last year with...
10 January 2019 The Australian Press Council has welcomed radioinfo as a new member, along with five other new members accepted at the...
18 December 2018 The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Macquarie University have appointed Martin Walters as Managing Director of radio station 2SER....
13 December 2018 Opinion from Steve AhernThe supression order preventing publication of the details in a high profile court case this week has...
6 December 2018 Radiodays Asia is a new international radio and audio conference that’s coming to Asia in 2019. The two-day conference,...
18 November 2018 In a media environment where public and commercial newsrooms are having their funding continuously squeezed, the community broaadcasting sector is...
28 June 2018 Broadcast Asia’s radio stream tackles music streaming, podcasting and video streaming. Nic Shields, Executive Music Director at Mediacorp Singapore,...