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Rupert Murdoch on the future of newspapers
Here is an edited version of Rupert Murdoch‘s Boyer lecture – The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees. One word summary? Brands. But here it is: Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise. I know industries that are today facing stiff new competition from the internet:…
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Government funded journalism
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: