Peter’s broad area of interest concerns the political economy of media. Much of his published work concerns media policy, particularly in regard to public service media. He has closely followed recent developments in New Zealand and has published widely on the public broadcasting reforms under Labour from 1999–2008, most notably on the TVNZ Charter and public funding issues. He is a regular media commentator on public broadcasting issues and was appointed as Chair of the Working Party that reviewed public submissions on the revised TVNZ Charter and helped amend the Charter document (which is currently due to be abolished). He has also undertaken commissioned research projects for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage (on public broadcasting funding mechanisms in 30 OECD countries) and for NZ On Air (on approaches to measuring broadcasting quality in seven countries).

Cameron McTernan is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. His current project Media Power in the Age of Tech Giants examines pluralism in Australia’s media industry using both existing revenue-based models and a proposed model for measuring the attention economy online. Cameron’s previous research Popular Politics // Authentic Australians explored the prevalence of populist appeals on social media posts by Australian politicians ahead of the 2019 federal election. He is also an early career teaching academic at the University of South Australia, lecturing in Communication, Strategic Public Relations and Social Media.