Tag: media
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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 fired left, right and centre,…
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Tharunka’s Big Ol’ Journo Crossword
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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, Senior Lecturer for Journalism at…
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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 media company that publishes metropolitan…
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Ice Cream, Politics & Gossip Girl: The Budget
It’s a joke. A pointless exercise contrived by the government of the day in an attempt to spin itself out of whatever black hole it’s managed to fall into. I should clarify. Every year the federal government hands down a budget in May. It’s a critical process of governing in Australia because it involves passing…
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Women in the Media
Like many western countries, Australia went through its own sexual revolution in the late 1960s. Women spoke up and found their place in society, outside of family life. The taboo regarding sex and sexuality was shattered throughout the academy, arts and media with figures such as Germaine Greer and Wendy Bacon leading the way. Greer…