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 …
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 …
Read More »