What this is

A running, curriculum-tagged feed of media stories, podcast episodes and videos for use across Year 7-8 Media, Year 9-10 Media and VCE Media (Units 1-4). Built to seed lesson hooks, assignment prompts, and discussion starters from current real-world media stories.

The pieces

• Media in the News — the database. Every processed item lives here as a row with summary, classroom-use notes, and discussion questions. Filter by year level or curriculum theme to find what you need.
• Inbox — where new items get dropped during the week. Rob (or anyone) adds URLs, headlines, or pasted text.
• Weekly digest task — runs each Monday morning. Reads the inbox, fetches whatever it can, summarises, tags, files, and posts a digest.

Sources we're tracking

• ABC Media Watch
• ABC RN Download This Show (podcast)
• triple j Hack (podcast)
• ABC Behind the News / Story Lab
• The Conversation (Media section)
• Crikey & Guardian Australia (media sections)
• On the Media / Pod Save the Media (US, for comparative work)
• Anything else worth dropping in — just add to the inbox and pick "Other" as the source

Important note about auto-pulling

The ABC website (abc.net.au) and Apple's podcast directory (itunes.apple.com) are blocked by this environment's network egress policy, so the digest task can't directly scrape Media Watch, Download This Show, or Hack from their official feeds.