This week, the competition watchdog announces an investigation into the first big cross-media deal following recent changes to media ownership laws. We also look at why young people like their news with a side of satire as well as plans to force freelance journalists to sign over the global copyrights of their articles and photos.

On this week's show, a look at why people are much more likely to take on board a health message if it is part of a drama, rather than a real life documentary. Also, Pay TV and free-to-air commercial stations battle it out for Australian viewers in the digital age. Australian politicians get stuck into each other, via You Tube and in the second part of our series of interviews with exiled journalists, Maung Maung Kyaw Win discusses what life is like living under the military regime of Burma.

This week, Rwandan journalist Thomas Kamilindi discusses the impact that the 1994 genocide had on his country and his family, as well as the reasons why he was eventually forced to leave his homeland. We also take a look at Impact, a new MySpace channel that aims to put constituents in touch with their politicians. And Australia finally gets its first 24-hour Indigenous television station.

This week, a look at the Fairfax-Macquarie Media plan to take over Southern Cross Broadcasting, the first big cross media ownership deal in Australia since recent media reforms. Also on the show, is there enough ethnic diversity in Australian theatre? And a new report finds that every month, three journalists flee their home country, often in fear for their lives.

This week, a look at the significance of the recent contempt of court convictions of two Canberra-based journalists. Also, with veteran Australian broadcaster John Laws calling it a day, we assess what the future holds for talkback radio. And with US music royalty fees set to rise for webcasters, Internet radio broadcasters lobby the US congress, in a bid to change the law.

On this week's show, we take a look at the dangers faced by women working in the media in Afghanistan, following the murders of two of the country's most prominent female journalists. Also on the show, the fall out from Hugo Chavez's decision to not renew the licence of RCTV and a look at the war of words over literary reviews in the blogosphere.