A Senate committee is set to unveil its long-awaited findings into the state of Australia’s media landscape. The media diversity inquiry will hand down its final report on Thursday, more than a year after it was first established. The report has been delayed multiple times, due to hearings being postponed. Australian media companies, as well as global tech giants Google and Facebook, were scrutinised about the current state of journalism in Australia and the effect of media concentration. The committee also examined the barriers faced by small and independent media outlets and the role of newswire services in supporting public interest journalism. The inquiry was established following a petition launched by former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who had called for a royal commission into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, which had received 500,000 signatures. More than 4800 submissions were received by the inquiry. The timing of the inquiry coincided with Facebook …