Articles - Rani Fletcher

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Campaigning for Clout: How Podcasts and Thirst Traps Won Over Voters This Election

Australia's federal election has been and gone, but the loudest campaigning took place online.

Brian Mitchell says it indicates a shift away from traditional media in electoral campaigning.

Newsline is a live News and Current Affairs program broadcast from the RMIT Media Precinct on Channel 31. This episode is co-hosted by Tom Williamson and Rani Fletcher, featuring a half-hour and one-hour bulletin.

The Swanston Gazette • 15th June 2025

You hear that? It’s the sound of a politician on your favourite podcast.

Abbie Chatfield became a familiar name on the seventh season of the Australian Bachelor in 2019. Six years later, on a tram on my way to work, I found myself tuning into her pop culture podcast, ‘It’s A Lot.’

Triple R • 31st May 2025

Programs: Graveyard Shift – 31 May 2025 (2am-4am), Graveyard Shift — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

An episode of Graveyard Shift on 31 May 2025 presented by Rani Fletcher.

The Swanston Gazette • 24th July 2024

Pornography and perpetrators of domestic violence are more closely related than we think.

On a Friday night at the end of May, my mother sent an ABC news article to our family group chat. I opened it, shocked to read a mother and daughter had been killed in a shooting just five minutes from where I grew up in Subiaco, Western Australia.

The Swanston Gazette • 28th November 2023

Unplugging from news or plugging news alternatively? How Australia's news consumption is changing

“An algorithm then decides these are the sorts of things you want to consume. They [readers] consume what they want to know and not what they need to know.”She says the industry taught her “if it bleeds, it leads”, and says the rise in mental health issues amongst young people has challenged this. She says young people “don’t really want doom and gloom all the time” and are more frequently disengaging with confronting, sensationalist content.It has now been six weeks since Hamas’ initial attack...