While it is widely accepted that the print newspaper industry is in decline, with profits and circulation waning all over the world, most are hesitant to predict, with any certainty, what the future will hold for journalists or publishers. PANPA, the Pacific Area Newspaper and Publishing Association, hosted the Future …
Read More »Something Happened: How Dan Nolan Would Run Fairfax
If you’re at all interested in the state of media in Australia you probably would have heard that Fairfax has laid out a new strategy for how it is going to survive in the age of the internet. They’re changing to a tabloid format to save paper, people are getting …
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A-hoy hoy, So like, I know that asking for help is pretty mainstream and all, because it’s just sah corporatized and shit out there in the whole world, yeah? But I really do have this totes hard questioniola that I’m dealing with right now. It’s, like, taking all my time …
Read More »Media Changes to Hit Journalism Students
The recent cuts at Fairfax have caused panic in newsrooms all over Australia with almost two thousand job losses for the papers affected. While it has been an expected decline for over a decade, the sudden shift in Fairfax’s approach to the problem caught many by surprise. While Peter White, …
Read More »Ice Cream, Politics & Gossip Girl: Would It Really Matter if Gina Bought Fairfax?
“Gina Rinehart is evil and we must do everything we can to stop her from ruining Fairfax”. This was the most common response from those on the progressive side of politics in Australia to news that Rinehart, a mining magnate and Australia’s richest woman, had bought almost 19% of the …
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