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Government funded journalism

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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: Con­tinue read­ing →

The gap left by the Fairfax strike

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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. Con­tinue read­ing →