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Sydney Morning Herald

Government funded journalism

Friday, 12 September, 2008

Eric Beecher, publisher of Aussie online phenomenon Crikey, and a former editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, has views on the decline of what he calls ‘public trust’ journalism:
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The gap left by the Fairfax strike

Sunday, 31 August, 2008

In 1945, sociologist Bernard Berelson took advantage of a newspaper delivery strike in New York to do some research, later published as What ‘Missing The Newspaper’ Means.
With 500 Aussie journos on strike (see their website), I thought it might be instructive to revisit a few of Berelson’s observations, to see how they held up today.

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