Responsible Media Forum 2025 Media Materiality Report

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We help organisations to make the optimal decision, to act with conviction and to deliver with certainty in an uncertain world. We ensure our clients can balance environmental, social and commercial priorities, creating long-term value for their business and stakeholders.

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SLR supports a wide range of industry sectors, partnering with organisations facing some of the world's toughest sustainability challenges. Working alongside clients locally while drawing on expertise from across the globe, we bring knowledge of acute challenges together with proven solutions from across sectors and geographies.

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We collaborate with clients throughout their project life-cycle, helping them chart their strategic path, protect their assets, strengthen operational resilience and deliver important projects.

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Insight

Same rules, different realities: Australia's first ASRS assurance cycle and what it taught us

03 September 2026

4 minutes read

Drawing on SLR's experience during the first round of ASRS reporting assurance, this article highlights the key lessons and common challenges faced by Group 1 reporters. It also explores what these insights mean for organisations preparing for future reporting and assurance requirements.

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Our mission

SLR’s purpose is Making Sustainability Happen.

We achieve this by bringing together strategic advisory expertise, deep scientific and engineering knowledge grounded in real-world experience, and trusted data and digital capabilities. Together, these integrated strengths help clients weigh risk, reward and resilience and move from ambition to practical action that delivers measurable, lasting impact.

Post Date: 13 March 2026
Read Time: 1 minute

Corporate Sustainability

Run by SLR, the Responsible Media Forum (RMF) is a partnership between 23 leading global media companies to identify and take action on the social and environmental challenges facing the sector.

2025 Materiality Report

The 2025 Materiality Report aims to summarise the sustainability topics which may be materially important to the media industry, based on research that the Responsible Media Forum (RMF) conducted in 2025 and inspired by Double Materiality Assessments (DMAs). It builds upon the five materiality reports published by the RMF since 2005 and is the culmination of a year’s worth of research, engagement with 21+ media companies, and with seven media-related organisations.

We hope that this report is a useful tool for anyone who is considering or conducting materiality assessments, developing their sustainability strategy, drafting sustainability disclosures, or any combination of the above.

The report covers an introduction to DMAs and the project; an overview of the findings (and the previous findings from the 2022 report); and a deep dive into the sub-topics deemed material (and the Impacts, Risks and/or Opportunities that drove them).