IHT Media Report for December 2024 – January 2025
Coverage by Media Type
Total mentions by media type in December 2024 – January 2025.
Potential Audience Reach
15,078,696 over 61 days (December 2024 – January 2025)
Cumulative potential audience reach by media type for December 2024 – January 2025.
IHT Media Appearances
- Professor Samantha Thomas was interviewed on 7News, 10 News, and numerous Radio programs on gambling harm. Prof Thomas was interviewed by The Guardian again in December for a story about Sportsbet ads being played amongst children’s songs on Spotify (Dr Hannah Pitt also spoke on this topic with ABC Melbourne Drive), and The Guardian again in late December for a story about Sydney University investing in poker machine manufacture.
- Dr Simone McCarthy was interviewed on the effects of gambling advertising on young people, appearing in The Age, Triple J, and on multiple radio stations.
- In the lead up to Christmas, Professor Kathryn Backholer spoke to ABC Melbourne’s The Conversation Hour about the fluctuating price of groceries.
- Associate Professor Hassan Vally continues as one of Deakin’s most prolific writers for The Conversation, writing an explainer about correlation and causation in early December and, at the end of the month, why disinfectants only kill 99.9% of germs.
- Deakin Distinguished Professor Catherine Bennett was interviewed on ABC Radio multiple times talking about Covid-19, RSV and the HMPV outbreak in China. Professor Bennett was quoted on the same topics in multiple online News agencies.
- Tan Nguyen was interviewed by Croakey on Exclusion, discrimination, trauma and preventable illnesses: why oral health inequities need urgent action.
- Professor Gary Sacks was interviewed on 2GB about banning junk food advertising following the recent SA government ban on unhealthy food advertising on public transport.
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