Media histories

If the first section of this Australian Media History issue of MIA focused on the first 50 years of The Australian newspaper, this second section, Media Histories, provides a general selection of articles covering different aspects of Australian media history. Designed to represent the several contemporary trends in Australian media history scholarship, this state-of-the-discipline collection covers a range of media and time periods. It shows how capacious and heterogeneous media history can be, and how indispensible - whether for the examination of media institutions and their regulation, media's intersections with politics and memories, media coverage of racial and ethnic differences across sport, food and national policy, or media's taking up of science with weather forecasting.